On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > On Friday 07 February 2003 15:41 pm, Meir Kriheli wrote:
> >
> >>Looks like keyboard handling in xfree 4.2.99.4 (STB 4.3.0) has changed.
> >>
> >>Couldn't get it to work the old way using:
> >>
> >> Option "XkbLayout" "il"
> >> Option "XkbOptions" "grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
> >
> >
> > You should add your primary keyboard, so instead of il, it should be: us, il
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hetz
>
> Thanks, I'll check it out.
>
> BTW, Is it wrong using the other way, which worked for me ?
>
> reminder:
>
> Option "XkbCompat" "group_led"
> Option "XkbSymbols" "us(pc104)+il+group(ctrl_shift_toggle)+group(switch)"
Because you're using low-level options, and those have changed even more:
try something like:
Option "XkbCompat" "group_led"
Option "XkbSymbols" "pc/us(pc104)+pc/il+group(ctrl_shift_toggle)+group(switch)"
"""" """"
But better still, use XkbOptions and XkbLayout :
Option "XkbLayout" "us,il"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:switch,grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
For more information, see the exiting English documentation:
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/
There is some more complete Russian near by:
http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/other/xkb/
both of which are not yet up-to-date to XFrree 4.3 though, I believe)
Two other notes:
* the reason for this change is to make keyboard configuration in linux
easier. There is still the limit of 4 layouts ("groups") that is probably
not going away anytime soon, but this change has made X keyboard
configuration much more sane. At least if you want to configure something
like English+Russion+Hebrew or English+Hebrew+Arabic . This should also
hopefully allow kxkb work in a more sane mode of operation with new XFree
X servers .
* Another small change with XFree 4.3: (){}[]<> . All of those eight keys
were mirrored. This is expected to confuse KDE , but help to mozilla and
probably to OpenOffice.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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