retitle 201737 xlibs: cannot type # on UK Macintosh keyboard (xfree86/macintosh/gb) reassign 201737 xlibs tag 201737 + moreinfo thanks
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:10:18PM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > hi there... > > it is not discussed here and the initial bug reporter wrote that > everything is fine with the additions from brandon robinson. but it is > not. one item is missing in the gb symbol table: > > key <LWIN> { [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ] }; > > without that, i cannot generate the numbersign when hitting the apple > key and 3. that snippet was taken from the german symbol table for macintosh, > btw. Do all British Macintosh keyboard users really expect the left Apple key to work as a mode switch (I think "group shift" would be a less confusing term, but they didn't put me in charge of the nomenclature) and (when shifted) a compose key? How often do British secretaries need to be able to type a number sign ("#")? I suspect that this is a customization best left to geeks and programmers by using one of the specialized symbol maps for this purpose, e.g.: XkbRules xfree86 XkbModel macintosh XkbLayout gb XkbOptions group:lwin_switch (Note, the latter consists of: // using the group(lwin_switch) map, the left Windows' logo key // temporarily chooses the second keyboard group (until it is // released). If you use this map, you would declare you keyboard as // pc101 or pc102 instead of pc104 or pc105. partial modifier_keys xkb_symbols "lwin_switch" { key <LWIN> { symbols[Group1] = [ Mode_switch, Multi_key ], virtualMods= AltGr }; }; ) Mark, between this and the modification to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb I sent you last July, are your problems resolved? If so, I'll queue up the changes for a future package release. -- G. Branden Robinson | Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux | improper. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Frewing, explaining the DMCA
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