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On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 20:15, Art Alexion wrote:
> Kevin Carruthers wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 18:37, Art Alexion wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Jeff's email on accented characters reminded me of this problem. When I
> >>installed this distro, I decided to use the deadkeys keyboard option
> >>since I could never get linux to use the alt+(ansi code on num pad) that
> >>works for me in windows and was supposed to work in Linux also. (I use
> >>the em dash, alt+0151, and the section mark, alt+0168, a lot. Deadkeys
> >>don't help with this anyway. I also use é, alt+0233, which -- as you
> >>can see -- deadkeys does well.)
> >>
> >>Well, it turns out that I use single ' and double ¨ quotes more than I
> >>use the accented characters made easier with deadkeys, and it is getting
> >>to be a pain -- especially switching from this computer to others that
> >>don't require tricks to enter tildes and quotes. Another problem is
> >>that the double quotes entered by <shift+quote, space> (¨) aren't
> >>recognized as ascii quotes by some programs, and OpenOffice's pub quotes
> >>features is so incompatible that I can't enter double quotes at all in
> >>my word processing -- have to use two single quotes -- unacceptable.
> >>
> >>Problem is, I can't figure out how to turn them off.
> >>
> >>Machine is Red Hat 7.3. Anyone have any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Art,
> >
> >I think you are not getting the double quote at all but the umlaut, the
> >space being the augmented character. It sounds like you are not getting
> >AltGr.
> >
> >Is AltGr (ModeShift) turned on in XF86Config?
> >
> >
> I don't think so (though I don't know what AltGr is). Here is the
> keyboard section
>
> # **********************************************************************
> # Keyboard section
> # **********************************************************************
>
> Section "Keyboard"
> Protocol "Standard"
>
> AutoRepeat 500 5
>
> # when using XQUEUE, comment out the above line, and uncomment the
> # following line
> # Protocol "Xqueue"
>
> # Let the server do the NumLock processing. This should only be
> # required when using pre-R6 clients
> # ServerNumLock
>
> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> # Xleds 1 2 3
>
> # 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
>
> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> # XkbDisable
>
> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> # XkbModel "pc102"
> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> # XkbModel "microsoft"
> #
> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> # XkbLayout "de"
> # or:
> # XkbLayout "de"
> # XkbVariant "nodeadkeys"
> #
> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> # control keys, use:
> # XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
> #
> # If you'd like to disable the capslock key, use:
> # XkbOptions "ctrl:nocaps"
>
>
> XkbRules "xfree86"
> XkbModel "logiinetnav"
> XkbLayout "us_intl"
> XkbVariant "basic"
> #XkbOptions ""
> EndSection
>
> >What does xmodmap show for Mod1?
> >
> >
> Alt_L (0x40)
>
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.
Run:
xmodmap -e "keycode 113 =
> >On my 'us w/ dead keys' keymap (probably the same) the double quote is
> >mapped to shift-AltGr-'"':
> >
> >bash$ xmodmap -pk | grep quotedbl
> >48 0xfe51 (dead_acute) 0xfe57 (dead_diaeresis) 0x0027
> >(apostrophe) 0x0022 (quotedbl)
> >
> >
> >
> Kevin, I understand the the foregoing three line should be executed in
> bash, but I am lost as to what AltGr is (which I should probably
> understand before I do anything.
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