On 10 Dec 2001, Koos Pol wrote:

>
> Arie Dogterom wrote on Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:38:16 +0100:
>
> | Hallo Koos,
> |
> |Your advice is excellent and with some modifications my keyboard runs well :
> |
> |a. I applied your "patch" bij changing the section in /etc/XF86Config
> |
> |
> |Section "Keyboard"
> |   Protocol "Standard"
> |   LeftAlt     Meta
> |   RightAlt   ModeShift
> |   XkbDisable
> |   EndSection

Note that this applies only to version 3 of XFree. On XFree 4 (the version
shipped with current version of all distros) the syntax of this part is a
bit different. See the XF86Config (5) man page.

>
> I suggested this method to the maintainer of the "Linux International
> Keyboard Howto" but I got two rather cryptic responses in return.
> Further then this he didn't care to explain. Can someone tell me why my
> solution is not so good after all?

Xkb is more flexible in setting the modifiers. Also, I'm not sure that
such a solution works for all keyboard layouts (maybe it works only for
latin1 ones?). I haven't tried it, but I was told that it doesn't work
with Hebrew, for instance.

Anyway, at least on my machine (mandrake 8.1, XFree 4.1 (?)) there is a
"nl" keyboard symbols file, and therefore you could easily configure the
system to use the "nl" layout with Xkb (see that HOWTO fr the exact
details).

> 1st response:
> -------------
> >Hi
> >
> >It works but this is rather a "rough" solution because you can't enlarge
> >words nicely in wisiwyg editor.

???

I don't understand what he means here.

> >
> >The solution you say is good for quick start, but in the long run, fruits
> >of XKB are better.
> >
> >Juraj
>
> 2nd response
> -------------
> >Hi,
> >
> >XKB is good for colors and enlarging of fonts. It is a native X solution, so why
> >use the other one? WISIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get.
> >
> >I thank you for your feedback.
> >Juraj
>
>
>
> Thanks
>

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