[I18n]macintosh de_CH xkb map ??

[Andreas Tobler]

Hi all,
don't know if I got the right mailing list. If not please point me to right one, thanks.

My question, is there an active macintosh keyboard maintainer around?
I'd like to know how the right(tm) rules are to configure a macintosh de_CH map. I have written the one which is in xfree86 since 2000. Now I encountered some problems and want to help improving the situation.

My current configuration works with some 'hacks'. I first want to know if the seem ok or if I have to first understand the xkb logic correctly.

I do it this way. I added something similar like grp:switch:

/etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86
grp:lswitch = +group(Lswitch)

/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/group
partial modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "Lswitch" {
key <LALT> {
symbols[Group1]= [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ],
virtualMods= AltGr
};
};

In the XFree config it looks this way:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
Option "XkbLayout" "de_CH"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:lswitch"

With this configuration I can have my @ key on the G. As it is printed on my poerbook keyboard.

One can either choose to have it now on grp:switch or grp:lswitch.

Is this an approach or what do you think? Otherwise I always had to modify the de_CH map with adding LALT definitions.

Thanks for any comments, feedback.

BTW, I mailed Ivan privately and I run a recent cvs snapshot. So it should be actual development code.

Andreas

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