Re: [I18n] Patch to use double width font (xft) in xterm

2003-12-30 Thread Frank Murphy
I have made a patch on xterm so that, it can accept one more option / resource, to utilize two fonts when using xft. Originally, -fa option will make xterm to use xft instead of XFontSet, but however, in most cases, this option is broken, as most CJK TTF fonts can't have good (acceptable)

Re: [I18n] Unicode and KDE

2003-12-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On Friday 19 December 2003 10:36, levan shoshiashvili wrote: KDE 3.1.4 In any kde text editor utf-8 input (georgian) works fine, but it seems it's not saved in unicode. When I save and Open after I see ??. In GNOME editors (gedit) everything works fine. p.s. I have not set utf-8 locale

Re: [I18n] us_intl + Russian in 4.3.0

2003-10-05 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 02 October 2003 11:31, Vladimir NOVIKOV wrote: First of all, I can't understand this difference between Compose, AltGr and dead key modes (that's why I definitively need more documentation). It's complicated. First, AltGr only exists on the keyboard, not in the software. For Linux,

Re: [XFree86] Keyboard configuration for Alt chars

2003-09-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 11 September 2003 12:18, Ph Legay wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 12:56, Ph Legay wrote: Well, the modifier that it sees is Alt_L. You want it to see Mode_shift. You can cause this to happen by putting this into your .Xmodmap file: keysym Alt_L

Re: [I18n] Creating a keymap

2003-09-07 Thread Frank Murphy
On Saturday 06 September 2003 7:46, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I am currently Planning on working on a icelandic keymap for X(Free) on Apple PPC machines as of now one does not exist. Sounds great. The project page (temporary) is http://212.30..56/ICELANDIK/ You got a bit aggressive

Re: [XFree86] OT: image manipulation

2003-09-03 Thread Frank Murphy
I take a screenshot with xwd -root bla.rgb How can I convert this rgb file to a png, jpeg ... Not using gimp but a cli tool .. Not really an XFree86 question, but look at ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) Frank ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] Keyboard configuration for Alt chars

2003-09-02 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 2:52, Ph Legay wrote: I have installed the mandrake 9.1 on my Macintosh (Of course this distribtion has a XFREE 4.3 environment). But I have no # { [ | \ with my keyboard. In a tty console (CTL+ALT+F1), I succeed to modify my keyboard configuration, But nothing

Re: [I18n] why does Mode_switch not work sometimes?

2003-08-27 Thread Frank Murphy
keycode 54 = C NoSymbol Ccircumflex For this line, you need 'keycode 54 = c C ccircumflex Ccircumflex' otherwise you lose the lowercase 'c'. Actually, that isn't true. On the machine where things are working correctly, this line enables shiftless lower case and shifted upper case. These

Re: [I18n] why does Mode_switch not work sometimes?

2003-08-24 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sunday 24 August 2003 4:17, Leston Buell wrote: keycode 0x71 =Mode_switch Multi_key This is Alt_R, right? keycode 54 = C NoSymbol Ccircumflex For this line, you need 'keycode 54 = c C ccircumflex Ccircumflex' otherwise you lose the lowercase 'c'. clear Mod1 clear Mod2 clear

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-22 Thread Frank Murphy
On Friday 22 August 2003 10:25, Ivan Pascal wrote: Hi, Frank Murphy wrote: So what's the difference between alt+c on Mac OS and Multi_key+, on X11? Is it just the display of the greyed-out character? I had thought that a dead key was a real key on the keyboard (that had the accent

[I18n] First patch for pc/ directory rationalization

2003-08-22 Thread Frank Murphy
So after some deliberation, I have the first patch to the pc/ directory. It's just the README.naming to define what the files in this directory should contain. This is probably just an intermediate solution, but will enable people to easily separate the language keymaps from the country

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 21 August 2003 3:38, Kent Karlsson wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Actually, here's a screenshot from the gswitchit page that shows that they did in fact use flags for keymaps: http://gswitchit.sourceforge.net/gsw.applet.png So, I stand behind by premise that developers tend

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 21 August 2003 3:37, Kent Karlsson wrote: Danilo Segan wrote: I like the idea. While working on my proposal, I thought that a main keymap per script was the way to go. Have a latin, cyrillic, greek, gujarati base, and change from there (qwerty, azerty, etc.). At least

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-21 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 21 August 2003 4:55, Kent Karlsson wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: Absolutely on Mac OS. In the US (where therre are no deadkeys), Yes there are (see below). in order to type on Mac OS (9 X), press alt/option+c, then press c again. alt+u is for umlaut, etc. alt/option+c

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 5:04, David Dawes wrote: Or maybe all of the xkb config files can go to a new location outside of xc/programs/xkbcomp. Once there is a good proposal for a more consistent and logical structure for all of these files, they can be moved. That way we don't need to be

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-16 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:02, Danilo Segan wrote: fr file governs keymaps for the French language, and it's sane (I already mentioned that there are other criteria, like population -- the criterium of language origin is just a sample one, for the sake of discussion) to have a default

[I18n] XKB symbols normalization proposal

2003-08-16 Thread Frank Murphy
After our discussion on the list, I propose two things. One is to include the following as a README.policy in the symbols/pc/ directory: --- The files in this directory describe possible layouts for a given keyboard. The names of the files are referenced in the X server configuration and in

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-15 Thread Frank Murphy
(I was just arguing against *country-only* based keymap names. That's the whole point. I don't mind country based keymaps, if there are also language based keymaps) As soon as you mentioned this, I agreed. What I'm suggesting now is 2-letter national code keymaps and 3-letter linguistic code

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Murphy
Sorry, I meant shift levels. my proposed us-ascii would have just key AE01 { [ 1,exclam ] }; not key AE01 { [ 1, exclam, onesuperior, exclamdown ] }; I'd go for: key AE01 { [ 1, exclam, any, any ] }; (I'm not sure if your

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Murphy
The only xkb_symbols us that I see are in digital/us and xfree68/ataritt. But the map would be the same as the xkb_symbols basic in pc/us, basically, the same as latin(basic) only not including the group 2 or 3 symbols (exclamdown, etc.). However, it would be in the latin file and

Re: [I18n] Re: Some thoughts on XKB symbols

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Murphy
No, I didn't mean to imply that FR was choosen as a default for fr because of textual similarity, but rather, because France, with ISO 3166 code of FR, is the originator of French language fr (perhaps this is not a good enough reasoning, and your reasoning based on population might be more

Re: iBook us-keyboard problem

2003-06-11 Thread Frank Murphy
+#if defined (i386) defined (SVR4) +/* + * PANIX returns DICOP standards based keycodes in using 106jp + * keyboard. We need to remap some keys. + */ +if(xf86Info.panix106 == TRUE){ + switch (scanCode) { + case 0x56:scanCode = KEY_BSlash2; break;

iBook us-keyboard problem

2003-06-04 Thread Frank Murphy
I have an iBook with a US keyboard layout, and I'm having a wierd problem I hope you can help with. The mac keyboards have a keypad equals key. X doesn't support that as separate from regular equals, but I'd like to use it to type equals. The problem is that both this KP-equals and the

[Xpert]Prob with ATI Xpert98, Tyan mo-board, and Apple 20 MultiScan (M1823)

2001-11-04 Thread Frank Murphy
Hi, I've been having problems with a used Apple monitor I picked up recently. I have an ATI Xpert 98 AGP card with a Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard. The monitor is model M1823, and it dates from around 1995. I'm running XFree86 4.1.0 from Debian unstable. Linux kernel 2.4.2. The problem