Since I'm still cc'ed here... On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:04:52PM +0300, Joe Schaffner wrote:
..[snip].. > <dead_acute> is on the semi-colon key and <dead_horn> is on the same > key, shifted, the colon key. > > <dead_grave> is on the single-quote key and <dead_ogonek> is on the > double-quote key. > > That's a pretty good layout. I like it. > > Why not name these keysyms <dead_psili> and <dead_dasia>? Because the list of keysyms is fixed, as defined in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h. At the time, using arbitrary existing keysyms made more sense than petitioning for "correctly-named" new ones. It works, after all. But OK, now maybe it's time to ask for a few new names if people are annoyed by the current state of affairs. > Anyway, I activate the gr keymap like this: > > setxkbmap "us,gr(polytonic)" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" > > The command syntax is troublesome. There seem to be other ways of > doing it. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to work. The canonical invocation would be: setxkbmap -layout us,gr -variant ,polytonic \ -option grp:alt_shift_toggle > Yes, the keymap is there, I can see it on the task bar. To switch to > another group, I can use the alt_shift combination (another meta > symbol? Where are all these symbols defined?). In /etc/X11/xkb, rules/xorg transforms grp:alt_shift_toggle to group(alt_shift_toggle). So you can look at the relevant section in symbols/group to see how this implements the layout switching. It all boils down to the generation of the ISO_Next_Group and ISO_Prev_Group keysyms. > Yes, I can enter greek characters. The <dead_acute> seems to work, but > I am not sure if it is outputting a tonos or a acute. It's probably a > tonos. > > None of the other dead keys seem to work. > > Any ideas? For the others to work, you need to have at least LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8. In my system, with LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, everything is working as it should. Keep in mind that for GTK+ applications you also need GTK_IM_MODULE=xim defined (or else you have to right-click on each textbox, and select Input Methods -> X Input Method). -- Vasilis Vasaitis "A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so." -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/