Subject: Re: Swedish xmodmap, use of alt key under X
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/15/1998 14:42:18
Running 'xkeycaps' - from pkgsrc - can also help greatly in
determining your keymappings. It will even output an Xmodmap file
for you...
David/absolute
"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 12:50 Uhr +0200 15.09.1998, Hans-Christian Becker wrote:
>
> >I use a Swedish-keyboard .Xmodmap file that was written for MkLinux (by
> >Roger.Henriksson@dna.lth.se), and just modified it a bit to exclude the
> >Swedish characters and map backslash and at to those keys instead.
> >
> >Now to the question: How should I preceed to (a) get Swedish characters to
> >work and (b) get more than two keysyms per key when the alt key is reserved
> >for the mouse?
>
> You are aware of
>
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/contrib/Xmodmap/de/>
>
> as an example?
>
> What you do to make up the correct layout is essentially crank up the MacOS
> "Keyboard" desk accessory to find out all the <opt> and <shift> <opt> key
> combinations you are interested in (a second Mac helps here) and set up the
> Xmodmap table accordingly.
>
> hauke
>
>
>
> --
> "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)
>
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