On Monday 26 June 2006 01:36, Robert Persson wrote: > The problem is that I don't know how to get it so that when I > press either the alt or the win key I get all those extra characters.
I don't think that pressing alt, win or meta should provide any extra characters with the us international keyboard layout. > Added to that is all this business about alt being set or not being set to > meta and so on. I don't think that is relevant to the layout. Only to functionality in certain programs like e.g. emacs as you mentioned. Many others too. > Compare this to macos, even very ancient version of it, where you get a very > rich keyboard layout out of the box. I wouldn't know... > Not only umlauts, but bullets, ellipses and the 2nd letter of the Danish > alphabet are available at the press of the alt/option key. The second letter in the danish alphabet is b... ;) > The second issue is that the US international keyboard, which I am > planning to use, isn't exactly ideal. It was designed for an ordinary > typewriter, where diareses and double quotes, as well as carets and > circumflexes, are identical. Are you absolutely sure they are identical? When I press a dead key once nothing happens. The following press be it the say key, space or some vowel determines what it becomes... > But it is the only extended US keyboard readily available for X, which is > the only reason I even consider using it. However it is actually unusable on > a desktop without the extra modifier keys working because, where the > standard US keyboard has quotes, carets and tildes, this one only has dead > keys. You should not need modifier keys for that. Just AltGr (the right alt key on my keyboard). > As I said, the Apple keyboard layouts are vastly superior. Unfortunately my > attempts to create a custom, Apple-like layout (when I was using KDE) > didn't work. I just don't understand xkb well enough. Does [1] help you? [1] http://hansmi.ch/articles/apple-keyboard-with-linux -- Bo Andresen
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