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Hi All,
After much tweaking, I have an almost perfect solution for this annoying
problem. I was able to get all the accelerators keys to work anywhere in
KDE, OOo, Mozilla and the console window. Since the solution is
implemented at the X level, I guess it could work for any X-based
application.
The following accelerators will work: <CTRL>, <ALT>, <CTRL>+<SHIFT>,
<ALT>+<SHIFT>, <CTRL>+<ALT>.
One minor problem remains though. Pressing <CTRL>+<KEY> will produce the
character <KEY> if <CTRL>+<KEY> is not bound to an accelerator. For
example, if <CTRL>+B is pressed in a console window, the character 'b'
is printed. In OOo, where <CTRL>+B serves as an accelerator key (bold
font) this works as expected.
This works for me in Fedora Core 2, w/KDE.
My KDE configuration includes keyboard layers for English and Hebrew.
My /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
...
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbOptions" "srvrkeys:none"
EndSection
I've added the following to /etc/X11/xkb/types/pc. This type tells xkb
to pick the 1st character if no accelerator is used, pick the 2nd
character if Shift is used or pick the 3rd character if any other
accelerator is used.
...
type "IGNOREACCEL" {
modifiers = Control+Shift+Alt;
map[none] = Level1;
map[Shift] = Level2;
map[Control] = Level3;
map[Control+Shift] = Level3;
map[Alt] = Level3;
map[Alt+Shift] = Level3;
level_name[Level1] = "Base";
level_name[Level2] = "Shift";
level_name[Level3] = "IgnoredAccelerator";
};
Within /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/il, I've mapped the required 3 characters
for each key. For example Pressing Shift+hebrew_resh will produce
Shift+the 2nd character (R) for the key. Pressing Alt+hebrew_resh will
produce Alt+the 3rd character (r) for the key.
...
key <AD02> { type="IGNOREACCEL", [ apostrophe, W, w ] };
key <AD03> { type="IGNOREACCEL", [ hebrew_qoph, E, e ] };
key <AD04> { type="IGNOREACCEL", [ hebrew_resh, R, r ] };
key <AD05> { type="IGNOREACCEL", [ hebrew_aleph, T, t ] };
...
Cheers,
-S.
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