Re: [PLUG] deadkeys

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Kevin Carruthers wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 20:15, Art Alexion wrote:
>  
>
> > Kevin Carruthers wrote:
> >    
> >
> > Here is the 
> > keyboard section
> >
> >  
> >
> >    # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift,
> >    # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock:
> >
> >        LeftAlt         Meta
> >        RightAlt        Meta
> >    
>
> Change to:
> 	RightAlt	ModeShift
>
>  
>
> >        ScrollLock      Compose
> >        RightCtl        Control
> >
> >   
> >    # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> >    #    XkbModel    "microsoft"
> >    #
> >   
> >    

> >    EndSection
> >
> >    
> >
> >    
>
> The Mode_switch key (sometimes called AltGr) is similar to shift. 
> Between the two modifiers you can assign upto 4 characters per key.  
>
> X allows you to map any 4 keysyms (key behaviours - i.e. 'a', ESC,
> PageUp, etc.) to any keycode (the physical key - i.e. scancodes).  This
> means that you can turn your 'b' key into "shift" and 'shift-a' into
> "7".  As if you would want to...
>
>
> The keysyms associated with a keycode are shown as columns in the output
> of 'xmodmap -pk'.  In my case:
>
> $ xmodmap -pk | grep quotedbl
> 48 	- keycode (the '"' key)
>
> 0xfe51 (dead_acute) - unmodified key press
>
> 0xfe57 (dead_diaeresis) - Shift
>
> 0x0027(apostrophe) - Mode_switch
>
> 0x0022 (quotedbl) - mode_switch + shifted
>
>
> So to get a '"' character I would have to press the "-key + Shift +
> Mode_switch.  To get access to this special key, remap the right alt key
> (standard location):
>
> #make the left "Alt" key the "Mode_Switch" key
> bash$ xmodmap -e 'keycode 113 = Mode_switch' 
>
> # turn Mode_switch into a Modifier
> bash$ xmodmap -e 'add mod3 = Mode_switch'
>
> You may also need to make a change to XF86Config (see above).
>
>
>
>
> You can actual map 
>
> Make the above change to XF86Config.
>  

OK, I made the changes as root and am about to restart X to see if they 
took.

In the quoted part of the keyboard section of XF86Config I uncommented 
the MS Natural Keyboard setting as that is what I use.  Is there a way 
to make some use of the three MS keys on the keyboard?  And so I don't 
keep having to ask, is there reasonably easy to understand documentation 
for these settings?  Like a table of key codes, etc.?

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