fre 2002-09-20 klockan 21.00 skrev Tom Ball: > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 12:55, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > > The easiest way for me, as mortal user, to turn my keyboard into a > > German keyboard, is to go into an xterm (command-line screen, like an > > MSDOS command screen but subtly different, you don't have to go out of > > Evo) and enter 'setxkbmap de'. Hey presto, German keyboard, which will > > print too :-) > > > > "But I don't want a German keyboard," you say; "I just want an umlaut." > > > > It's a hard life, Sean, a hard life. > > Life is not that hard, at least for entering international characters. > :-) <snip>
> That mostly worked, except that 115 has keyboard repeat on by default, > which makes using it as a modifier difficult. I couldn't figure out how > to modify this in X, so as a hack I added "/usr/bin/X11/xset -r 115" as > a GNOME startup program (GNOME Control Center/Advanced). If someone > knows the correct way to make this change, please let me know. In any > event, it appears to work. Download xkeycaps from the web, it has a nice GUI and alows you to dump a xmodmap file with your changes. I moved my ALT key and my Win key is now Meta my ~ is no-longer dead etc... nice little changes.. to bad that if you put them in the .bashrc file you can't do working SSH sessions.. but it's ok.. > If this is too much work (or my instructions don't work on your system), > there is always the Programs/Utilities/GNOME Character Map application. Wow I didnt even know there was one.. > Tom -- Mårten Woxberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Linköping
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