On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:30:02AM +0200, Torje Digernes wrote: > On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 21:46:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Kiith-Sa wrote: > >>You mean like > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard > >>? > > > >Whoa! That is exactly what I had in mind!! > > > >Pity they don't appear to support Linux, though. :-( > > > > > >T > > If you want to configure your keyboard so you can type unicode in > Linux you should make yourself familiar with xkb, it is not that > difficult to work with, but not exactly user friendly either, super > user friendly though.
Oh, I know *that*. I configured my xkb setup to switch between English and Russian with the unused windows key (I used to have Greek too, but I use it rarely enough that I took it out). It's just that without the dynamic key labels, I have to touch-type, which requires learning each layout as opposed to just looking for the symbol I need on the key labels. And I have yet to figure out a sane way to support *all* of Unicode without making the result unusable -- when I had Greek in the mix, it was already getting cumbersome having to continually hit the windows key repeatedly when alternating between two of the 3 languages. That's simply not scalable to, say, 100 modes. :-P But maybe I'm just missing a really obvious solution. That happens a lot. :-P T -- War doesn't prove who's right, just who's left. -- BSD Games' Fortune
