On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 09:41:33PM +0100, akhiezer via blfs-book wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 18:04:32 -0000
> > From: via blfs-book <[email protected]>
> >
> > Author: pierre
> > Date: Mon May 8 11:04:32 2017
> > New Revision: 18702
> [...]
> > and add an example of XkbLayout for non-qwerty keyboard.*
> [...]
> >
> > + <para>
> > + The <quote>XkbLayout</quote> line is an example for a French (AZERTY)
> > + keyboard. Change it to your keyboard model. That line is not needed
> > for
> > + a QWERTY (US/GB) keyboard.
>
>
> Hmmm. Is that entirely true... . I've certainly 'carried-forward'
> the line:
>
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us"
>
> ; w/o e.g. the 'gb' then for at least up to recent X, the layout is not
> 'gb' type. Is it definitely 'not needed' for X now?
>
I have to strongly disagree that gb is not needed for a British
QWERTY keyboard: the key caps have several differences (double
quotes on shifted 2, Sterling on shifted 3, corresponding movements
for related symbols e.g. AT is on shifted single quote.
For a US keyboard, I believe us has never been needed unless you
wish to specify a variant, i.e. if nothing is specified you get some
form of American QWERTY.
O/T digression now I'm talking about X keyboard maps -
as I've mentioned before, I have two extended variants for gb
(deader - more dead keys including e.g. hook, horn (not normally in
gb although they are in us), stroke, currency) and rusphon (the
phonetic russian modified a bit). Whether I can always remember
which is which is a different matter, particularly since some of my
recent keyboards move things like #~ (AltGr gives dead grave and
dead breve in a regular gb map, and that used to be next to '@). I
also have a modified Compose file to add a lot of obscure things
such as Єє (ukrainian E on AltGr in my rusphon) and to give better
greek coverage using a 'dead greek' key αβγδε (alpha, beta, gamma,
delta, epsilon). Keymaps are *fun* ;-)
Those aren't ever going upstream, but are available if anybody cares.
My /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-keyboard.conf (arguably it might be
better in /etc, since it is a local change by the idiot who passes
for a sysadmin here) is -
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard-all"
Driver "evdev"
# for my own russian variant, specific to a gb keyboard, I
# put it in gb
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,gb"
Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
# add my own 'deader' gb variant - more dead keys
Option "XkbVariant" "deader,rusphon"
Option "XkbOptions"
"ctrl_alt_bksp,grp:lctrl_lwin_rctrl_menu,compose:caps"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
EndSection
Even for somebody using a standard keyboard map, that shows an
example of how to use the CapsLock for Compose : Compose got
mentioned on the gimp user list today when somebody asked how to
input u-umlaut, so it isn't dead yet.
ĸen
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