On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 6:38:19 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Rustom Mody : > > > On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 2:05:55 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> (On the other hand, I have always specified my preferred keyboard > >> layout with .Xmodmap.) > > > > If this is being given as advice > > I never gave it as advice. > > > its bad advice xmodmap is obsolete use xkb > > A coworker of mine went through the trouble of doing the xmodmap > equivalent with setxkbmap. Thought of interviewing him about it one day. > > How-to's are really hard to come by: > > <URL: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_i > n_Xorg> -- no good > > <URL: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172316> -- no good > > <URL: http://michal.kosmulski.org/computing/articles/custom-keyboar > d-layouts-xkb.html> -- interesting but assumes root access > > <URL: https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Change_keyboard_maps> -- no > good > > etc etc > > > This particularly nasty bug: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/998310 I believe > > I witnessed when I tried to use xmodmap > > I do run into that when I place my laptop on the docker. I know to > expect it, wait for ten or so seconds, and I'm on my way. I'm guessing > it has to do with the X server sending the keyboard map to every X > window on the display. > > So Rustom, how do *you* produce, say, Hebrew or Spanish text, or your > favorite math symbols?
I wish I could say I have a good answer -- ATM dont However some ½-assed ones: Emacs: set-input-method (C-x RET C-\) greek And then typing abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz gives αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζ [yeah that ; on q is curious] Spanish?? No idea But there seems to be a spanish input method that has these éóñá¿ Ive typed Hindi/Marathi/Tamil/Sanskrit/Gujarati and helped others with Bengali using devanagari-itrans/gujarati-itrans/tamil-itrans/bengali-itrans input methods. There are also the corresponding -inscript methods for those that type these fluently -- I am not one of those. I have some 15-20 lines of elisp that makes these itrans uses easier (for me) Math: So far Ive used tex input method -- Not satisfactory Search-n-cut-paste from google is better! My favorite goto for these are Xah Lee's pages: Starts here: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_index.html Some neat xah pages: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_matching_brackets.html http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_math_operators.html Some of this is replicatable at setxkbmap level [Note: these commands are dangerous as you can have a borked X system. Of course temporarily One safety catch is to keep setxkbmap -option in the bash history So (assuming up-arrow still works) goofups are correctable ] eg Doing $ setxkbmap -layout "us,apl(sax)" -option "grp:switch" gives an APL keyboard on shift-rAlt chord So abcdefghijklmnop chorded gives with RtAlt ⍺⊥∩⌊∊_∇∆⍳∘⎕|⊤○*?⍴⌈~↓∪⍵⊂⊃↑⊂ Along with RAlt-Shift ⊖⍎⌊⍷⍫⍒⍋⍸⍤⌻⍞⌶⍕⍥⍟¿⍴⌈⍉↓∪⌽⊃↑⊂ I guess expert APLers may find this neat -- I am not one! So I use this emacs-mode https://github.com/lokedhs/gnu-apl-mode when using APL (mostly teaching) Then there is compose For this Ive a compose key set [With laptops and ubuntu-unity ths can get hard 1. Unity appropriates too many keys 2. Laptops have key shortage -- Ive just changed to CAPSLOCK to try out] Then install uim Then install https://github.com/rrthomas/pointless-xcompose The whole point of that is to edit that to get it to have those chars that one wants accessible and not others... Ive not got round to that! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
