2009/12/10 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> > 2009/12/10 James Wilde <james.wi...@sunde-wilde.com>: > > > > On Dec 10, 2009, at 08:27 , Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Hmm... In that case it must be either my Sun Keyboard or the Sunray > >> rdesktop remote session that is preventing it for me. ^_- > >> > > > > I think the big money would be on the second one, Thomas. There was a > time when I was connecting to several machines via remote desk top or vnc > and similar, and in some combinations I was unable to type any of the Alt-Gr > key combinations. The only way I found to resolve this was to have a small > text file on the remote machines, containing all the symbols I used most > often, and have it permanently open on the remote machine so I could quickly > copy and paste. One such was the bar, |, which is a Alt-Gr combination on > the swedish keyboard. Imagine typing 'ps -ef | grep <command> a hundred > times a day with no bar! > > As I said, it's not a very hard work to make your own keyboard layout > in Linux. I did and I have the ”|” at Shift+/. The ”/” is located > where normal layouts has ”7” (I keep all my numbers at the numerical > part of the keyboard and nowhere else). And yes, I have a Swedish > keyboard. > > Johnny Rosenberg
Johnny, your Swedish keyboard has a default shortcut for «|», *viz*, «Alt Gr + the >/< key», which is platform independent. What's the point in introducing a home-grown version, which may not be ?... Henri
