Re: [ILUG] RE: Irish characters, Fadas, accents, international symbolsetc. (fwd)

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 16 Apr 2002 - 12:23:55 IST

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 11:54, Liam Bedford wrote:

>> So to sum up, how can I make a replacement for AltGr (e.g. Ctrl + Alt,
>> which I think was what was used before keyboards had AltGr keys) and
>> where do I plug it into the xkb file ?

> pick a key, any key, say Alt. Find the keycode for ALT:
> xev
>
> then do
> xmodmap -e 'keycode blah = Alt_R Mode_Switch'

No, no, no.

The whole point of using Xkb in the first place is to get rid of
xmodmap, which is deprecated.

In the Xkb file we're doing, put:

key <whatever> { [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ] };

in the appropriate place.

Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ for lots of Xkb files, which
should give you an idea what they look like.

          Colm 

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