On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:12:09 +1100 Nick Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erik, > > You don't need gnome-applets. All the keymaps are in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols > and are called via 'setxkbmap map'. The path is hard-wired. > > The Portuguese ones are pt and br. Unfortunately both these > keymaps assume that you're using a Portuguese 105key keyboard. > > I imagine your dad isn't a proficient touch typist on a > Portuguese keyboard. My father doesn't touch type on any keyboard. He's very much a hunt and peck kinda guy. Not al that fast either :-). > Most likely he'll be relying on the keylabels. > > I've put an anglo-portuguese keymap at http://tandv.ws/font, > called pt1. > Put this in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols and access via > 'setxkbmap pt1'. Done this but I got [EMAIL PROTECTED] > setxkbmap pt1 Couldn't find rules file (xfree86) Turned out some of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb directory was not world readable. Anyway, it now seems to work. My father and I will have to play around with it to see if it does everything he needs. A good start is that I can actually write his name, Jo�o, correctly on my own keyboard in Sylpheed. I suppose the thing I don't get is how this method relates to the MultiKey approach that seems to be listed on all the web pages out there. > ================================================================ > > Did you need to generate other locales, like pt or en_US.UTF-8 I tried that and I currently have LANG set to en_AU.UTF-8. > to view pt accents in sylpheed? On the receive side, viewing the portuguese accents always worked correctly. > Are you able to see the accents in a terminal, or perhaps that's not an > issue? Definitely not an issue :-). Thanks very much for your help Nick. Cheers, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Laws of Thermodynamics: 1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot get out of the game. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
