Am 05.01.2011 16:32, schrieb Dirk Wallenstein:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:41:16PM +0100, Stefan Witzel wrote:
is it possible to extend the system-wide xkb layout database by
user-specific files. And if not: why is that?
I ran into this problem because I want a german
"deadgraveacutecircum"-layout in which grave acute and circumflex are
dead but tilde is not. But on systems where I am not administrator I
cannot install this. And even on systems where I am administrator I
would have to renew my changes after every upgrade.
Would the "right" way to do it be to use the standard layout (with dead
tilde) and then use a .Xmodmap? Every time I tried that I got strange
effects when switching between multiple xkb layouts.
Thanks in advance for any help!
If you know how to edit XKB keymaps and only need one specific
keymap for yourself, I would suggest to simply load the wanted keymap
with xkbcomp at startup. I do that in the KDE autostart folder.
This sounds like a good idea but apparently I got something wrong. I
created a file my_keymap which looks as follows:
xkb_keymap "de" {
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86" };
xkb_types { include "default" };
xkb_compatibility { include "default" };
xkb_symbols
{
include "pc(pc105)+de(basic)"
name[Group1]="Germany - Dead grave acute circumfex";
key <AD12> { [ plus, asterisk, asciitilde,
dead_macron ] };
key <BKSL> { [numbersign, apostrophe, grave,
grave ] };
};
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc102)" };
};
When I now do "xkbcomp my_keymap :0.0" the X server crashes. I also
tried to put the symbols in a separate symbols file (so as to add them
to the existing symbols rather than replacing those), but I could not
get him to find that file. I admit that I do not really understand the
entire mechanism but I didn't find much documentation of it either.
Best,
Stefan
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