Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: > On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:05:55 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> (On the other hand, I have always specified my preferred keyboard >> layout with .Xmodmap.) > > If this is being given as advice
I never gave it as advice. > its bad advice xmodmap is obsolete use xkb A coworker of mine went through the trouble of doing the xmodmap equivalent with setxkbmap. Thought of interviewing him about it one day. How-to's are really hard to come by: <URL: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_i n_Xorg> -- no good <URL: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172316> -- no good <URL: http://michal.kosmulski.org/computing/articles/custom-keyboar d-layouts-xkb.html> -- interesting but assumes root access <URL: https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Change_keyboard_maps> -- no good etc etc > This particularly nasty bug: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/998310 I believe > I witnessed when I tried to use xmodmap I do run into that when I place my laptop on the docker. I know to expect it, wait for ten or so seconds, and I'm on my way. I'm guessing it has to do with the X server sending the keyboard map to every X window on the display. So Rustom, how do *you* produce, say, Hebrew or Spanish text, or your favorite math symbols? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
