2009/12/11 M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com>: > 2009/12/10 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> > >> 2009/12/10 James Wilde <james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com>: >> > >> > On Dec 10, 2009, at 08:27 , Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Hmm... In that case it must be either my Sun Keyboard or the Sunray >> >> rdesktop remote session that is preventing it for me. ^_- >> >> >> > >> > I think the big money would be on the second one, Thomas. There was a >> time when I was connecting to several machines via remote desk top or vnc >> and similar, and in some combinations I was unable to type any of the Alt-Gr >> key combinations. The only way I found to resolve this was to have a small >> text file on the remote machines, containing all the symbols I used most >> often, and have it permanently open on the remote machine so I could quickly >> copy and paste. One such was the bar, |, which is a Alt-Gr combination on >> the swedish keyboard. Imagine typing 'ps -ef | grep <command> a hundred >> times a day with no bar! >> >> As I said, it's not a very hard work to make your own keyboard layout >> in Linux. I did and I have the ”|” at Shift+/. The ”/” is located >> where normal layouts has ”7” (I keep all my numbers at the numerical >> part of the keyboard and nowhere else). And yes, I have a Swedish >> keyboard. >> >> Johnny Rosenberg > > > Johnny, your Swedish keyboard has a default shortcut for «|», *viz*, «Alt Gr > + the >/< key», which is platform independent. What's the point in > introducing a home-grown version, which may not be ?... > > Henri > I know, but hitting Shift + 7 is easier. But I didn't change my keyboard for the | character. I completely changed just about everything, and while doing it I figured that I could move the | to a somewhat more available place.
The main point in doing my own layout was to add more characters, expecially some greek characters, like ωΩαβπ and some useful characters like ‰ ≤ ≥ ⩽ ⩾ ≠ ≈ ⅛ ¼ ⅜ ½ ⅝ ¾ ⅞ ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ± ÷ · × ℃ ℉ ℗ and some musical symbols like 𝄞 (g clef), 𝄋 𝄉 and so on… (notice also that the three dots at the end av last sentence are not three single dots, but rather one single character). Well, what more? ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉ could be useful some time. And I can type arrows with my arrow keys now: ←↑↓→⇨⬄ and I can even type with my Enter key: ↵¶. What about a check box? ☐ And a checked one: ☒ ☠☺☹ A german double s, anyone? ß. And some Icelandic characters: ÐðÞþ. For creating characters like ïÿščşç I use dead keys, so I have to combine ˇ and ¸ respectively with other characters. Okay, a bit out of topic perharps… Sorry. Johnny Rosenberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
