Hi, I set myself up a *long* time ago (with Xfree 2.x and later 3.x) and got a setup I kind of liked (for typing French on qwerty keyboards). 1) Compose for things like « 2) Dead keys for ê 3) Using the 5th and 6th column of characters (second mode switch)
In other words, I had this working a *long* time ago: keycode 26 = e E eacute egrave ecircumflex ediaeresis ecircumflex ediaeresis Unfortunately, I have failed to ever get my second modifier key (mapped to Control_R) to ever work after I upgraded Xfree ages ago. This setup is kind of nice because I can get ê with two keys instead of 3. I read that the mappings 5 to 8 aren't garanteed to work and are implementation specific. I know they used to work, but is it still possible to do this today? Is there a magic Mode_switch2 name that I can assign to my right control key? (I tried Num_Lock without success) Thanks, Marc Right now, my Xmodmap looks like this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- clear control !! clearing and re-setting mod1 used to prevent Meta from working in Motif apps clear mod1 clear mod2 clear mod3 clear mod4 clear mod5 ! This is still broken on many distributions keycode 22 = BackSpace keycode 15 = 6 asciicircum dead_circumflex dead_circumflex keycode 49 = grave asciitilde dead_grave dead_grave keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl dead_acute dead_diaeresis keycode 38 = a A agrave agrave acircumflex adiaeresis acircumflex adiaeresis keycode 26 = e E eacute egrave ecircumflex ediaeresis ecircumflex ediaeresis keycode 30 = u U ugrave ugrave ucircumflex udiaeresis ucircumflex udiaeresis keycode 31 = i I icircumflex idiaeresis icircumflex idiaeresis icircumflex idiaeresis keycode 32 = o O ocircumflex odiaeresis ocircumflex odiaeresis ocircumflex odiaeresis keycode 54 = c C ccedilla ccedilla ccedilla ccedilla ccedilla ccedilla ! Left Alt Key default !keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L ! Scroll lock default ! keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock ! Let's set scroll lock to the multi key (compose) keycode 78 = Multi_key ! Right Control Key default ! keycode 109 = Control_R ! keycode 109 = Multi_key Control_R keycode 109 = Num_Lock Control_R ! Right Alt Key default !keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R keycode 113 = Mode_switch Alt_R Meta_R !! !! Now, we can set the modifiers !! This way, it will work regardless of what entries we have in XF86Config !! In theory, the order of the modifiers doesn't matter (except for mod1) !! !add shift = Shift_L Shift_R !add lock = Caps_Lock add control = Control_L add mod1 = Alt_L !! Mode_switch gives access to the 3rd and 4th mappings for keys add mod2 = Mode_switch !add mod3 = add mod4 = Num_Lock !! Multi_key is compose add mod5 = Multi_key ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n