On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:54:26PM +0100, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:44:01PM +0100, Tibor Simko wrote:
> > As for switching keyboards, there are several programs that enable you
> > to do that, e.g.:
> 
> I use 'setxkbmap se' (or 'us') with great success. 

Unfortunately setxkbmap resets any extra settings you might have
made with xmodmap, and the xkb files are quite difficult to
customise compared to using xmodmap. 

And what is just great is that in Xfree86 4.3 they've broken the
finnish keyboard map so that stuff behind AltGr can not be modified
with xmodmap at all (to my knowledge). AltGr used to be Mode_switch
but in 4.3 it is some ISO_Level3_Shift thing.

Well, I can always dump my current xmodmap completely...

I have completely remapped my AltGr map to be more coding-friendly 
as the standard finnish layout is just awful for writing C:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/topics/keyboards/KBD153.jsp

My mappings:    

        <>|     second AltGr
        AltGr+S <
        AltGr+D |
        AltGr+F >
        AltGr+H {
        AltGr+J }
        AltGr+I [
        AltGr+O ]
        AltGr+K (
        AltGr+L )
        AltGr+Ã \
        
And of course no dead keys (the three accent keys next to enter and 
backspace or normally dead), caps lock=control, and tilde, the only
useful accent, has been replaced to be directly behind its key
instead of behind AltGr-key.

-- 
Tuomo

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