As xmodmap doesn't work anymore, I'm trying to switch to xkb.
I hacked /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us to make the laptop keyboard
more like a Unix keyboard:
--- us- Mon Jul 20 14:56:22 2009
+++ us Mon Jul 20 15:09:41 2009
@@ -334,10 +334,18 @@
key <RWIN> { [ Multi_key ] };
};
-// defintion which includes both the Windows95 keyboards _and_
+// definition which includes both the Windows95 keyboards _and_
// the extra key on most European keyboards.
xkb_symbols "pc105" {
include "us(pc104)"
+
+ key <ESC> { [ grave, asciitilde ] };
+ key <TLDE> { [ Escape, asciitilde ] };
+ override key <BKSP> { [ backslash, bar ] };
+ // key <BKSP> { [ backslash, bar ] };
+ key <BKSL> { [ BackSpace, bar ] };
+ key <RALT> { [ grave, asciitilde ] };
+
key <LSGT> { [ less, greater ] };
};
xkb_symbols "pc105euro" {
This works reasonably well except for Shift-Backspace: it produces
'\' not '|'. Is there some trick to get the desired result?
PS: I tried it also without "override" (which I took from the apple
file), but that doesn't work either.
