Re: [Newbie]xkb
At 08:58 AM 11/1/2002 +0200, you wrote: try: setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle OK, I tried. There must be something more to this... I suspect that xkb has to be configured for whatever keyboards are needed (like US English and French). I haven't found any information on how to go about this without getting into heavy programming. I looked at man setxkbmap and don't understand too much... :(( PJ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:49 PM Subject: [Newbie]xkb I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, PJ ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]xkb
At 08:58 AM 11/1/2002 +0200, you wrote: try: setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle OK, I tried. There must be something more to this... I suspect that xkb has to be configured for whatever keyboards are needed (like US English and French). I haven't found any information on how to go about this without getting into heavy programming. I looked at man setxkbmap and don't understand too much... :(( PJ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:49 PM Subject: [Newbie]xkb I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, PJ ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]xkb
Sorry, I can't help you further, hope someone more knowledgable does. But I think you should try a newsgroup more relative to localazation than to XFree86. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [Newbie]xkb At 08:58 AM 11/1/2002 +0200, you wrote: try: setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle OK, I tried. There must be something more to this... I suspect that xkb has to be configured for whatever keyboards are needed (like US English and French). I haven't found any information on how to go about this without getting into heavy programming. I looked at man setxkbmap and don't understand too much... :(( PJ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:49 PM Subject: [Newbie]xkb I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, PJ ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
[Newbie]xkb
I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, PJ ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]xkb
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, Hi, AFAIK, xkb is implemented as part of the xserver rather than a standalone program. The utilities that make use of it are xkbcomp, xkbprint, xkbbell, xkbevd, xkbvleds, and xkbwatch. There are applets that allow you to switch on the fly from within windowmanagers (such as http://anaproy.homeip.net/proycon/wmkeymapper.tar.gz wmkeymapper within WindowMaker), I think that you might be better off trying to make use of xmodmap (which has a front end http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/ ) or you could try using loadkeys: see man loadkeys for more info. I don't know about a specific key-combo that will do this. There are also things like gnome-character-map, which I presume has a KDE counterpart which are like the character-picker apps in M$Win and Mac and allow one to choose accented character by pushing a keyboard picture button. HTH, Oisin Feeley ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
Re: [Newbie]xkb
try: setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggle - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:49 PM Subject: [Newbie]xkb I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document where I am using text and graphics - in OpenOffice, specifically. s there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? On Windows, hiting Left Shift + Alt switches between keyboards. An alternate way of entering accented or strange characters (on Windows) is to hold down Alt and enter the ASCII codes from the number pad, e.g. Alt - 0233 produces é. I was told that xkb (or is it XKB) could do this; that I could switch keyboards with hotkeys. Would this work in OpenOffice? In kde3? Where can I find info on how to implement and use? Thanks in advance, PJ ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
[Newbie]XKB and IBM (c)(tm)(r) 84-key AT (c)(tm)(r) keyboard
Does anybody have an XKB configuration for an IBM 84-key AT keyboard? Lacking that, does anybody have documentation on the XKB configuration file? ___ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
