On 10/10/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Today on „¡Mythbusters!", Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "MS Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option "XkbOptions" "compose:ralt"
> EndSection
>
Wow! You da man! In my case, "compose:rmenu" because AltGr is far
too important for me to relegate to Compose, and my current keyboard
has a 'menu' key next to it, where they used to put 'right windows'
(:rwin if you have that).
I'm still having difficulty with some of the symbols, but the
technique definitely works and I can now type all the Welsh
characters I desire.
I can't take any of the credit for that. I forgot to give proper
respects in the first right, but Ag Hatzim told me all that. Now I
tracked down the email conversation I had with him. He has some other
cool fixes about switching back and forth between keyboard layouts for
US and Greek. Here's the relevant parts from that:
>In a X application or in a terminal,I use the dead key.
>I configured the right windows key "ralt" to use it as a dead key,in my
>xorg.conf
>Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:ralt"
Excellent. I couldn't figure out how to use the alt_shift and why it's
not enabled by default in the en_US keyboard.
Just for clarification.
The grp:alt_shift_toggle option is being used for toggling language group.
Example from xorg.conf.
Option "XkbLayout" "us,gr"
As you see I am using the us and gr layout,so with grp:alt_shift_toggle
I say to X to toggle language group when I press the Alt+Shift combination.
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:ralt"
These are 3 different settings in there,separated with a comma.
The last one (compose:ralt) is the one that interest us(in our topic).
Setting this up in xorg.conf,instead of using xmodmap,you make this a global
setting in an environment with multiply users.
Do you like this ü? This was a helpful page:
http://process-of-elimination.net/wiki/Means_of_Composing_Accented_Characters_in_X_Window_System
Great!.
You see this is one of my visions,to organize all this information in
one place with a practical way.
Did you knew that in X you can simulate every movement of a mouse by just using
the keypad?
http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/#3.5
This functionality is a built in Xorg/XFree86 and is absolutely unknown.
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