On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:38:25 -0500 "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2003 09:29:47 -0600 > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. Where do you find a description about the exact meaning of > > "PC101","PC104", "pickakeyboard layout", etc. ? > > pc104 will work fine > Yeah, it works fine, but what does it really mean? What's the real difference between PC101, PC104, etc.? And how can you tell which you've got? > > > > 2. Where do you find the meaning of cryptic keycode descriptors like > > "AltGr-" ? > > On a Spanish keyboard, that's the right alt key (not sure on others) > > as for meaning??? donīt understand the question. > The question is, where is there a list of key names with corresponding definitions? I can guess that with Alt in the name, it has something to do with one of the Alt keys, but what is the Gr- portion of the symbolic name? You, for example, use <AltGr> but I also see this written as <AltGr->. > On a Spanish keyboard, you have not two, but often 3 symbols on a key. > > the upper is shift, the lower left is normal, the lower right is using > the <AltGr> key. > > > > > 3. Where do you find the meaning of "Compose Key" , "Meta Key" , > > "Mode n", etc. ? > > On the old DEC5000 keyboards I used years ago (1990-1995) w/ Ultrix, > we had a key called "Compose" that allowed us to construct ņ by > holding the compose key and selecting ~ then n. The Meta key should > be your left Windoze key and mode is most likely the right one (but I > havenīt ever had reason to use these so donīt quote me on this). > > > > > 4. My X config has the following layout, but I can't find any > > combination of keys that will generate umlauts and other > > international character. What am I missing? > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "keyboard" > > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > > Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" > > EndSection > > > > 5. Font selection is OK. Emails display the appropriate umlauts, > > etc. > > Some apps donīt honor the X stuff. > > The use of these extended ASCII characters seems (128-255) to be > _very_ application dependent. > In my case, no app seems to recognize any of the methods of generating international characters that we have discussed thus far. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area gentoo stable - ext3 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
