Re: Where the hell is @ in X11 (0.3 Beta)
Re: Where the hell is @ in X11 (0.3 Beta)
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:19:00PM +0100, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
> --On Dienstag, 18. Mdrz 2003 10:50 Uhr +0100 Jutta Wrage
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > German keyboard is working fine with all my changes. But today someone
> > asked me, how to get the @ in xterm. And surely, I didn't try with beta
> > 0.2 before upgrading.
>
> Jutta,
>
> the @ is where you'd expect it to be: Alt-L. However, that may be only true
> if you don't make modifications with xmodmap ...
I used xmodmap initially, to make the changes to get X11 to support my
Microsoft external keyboard (since the UK model of the PowerBook G4
essentially has a US keyboard layout, just with a GBP sign where # would
be.
I found that ultimately it's better to remap the keyboard globally in
MacOS X and then use that, since the X server can use that map, and it
simultaneously fixed the problem in all my other apps as well, and I no
longer need my xmodmap changes.
There's a good page at:
http://wordherd.com/keyboards/
Which helps you define new keyboard layouts. A word of warning: it
creates Unicode keyboard layouts by default. These only work with
Unicode-capable applications. X11 is one such, but Microsoft Office is
not, so you need to make a Roman keyboard layout if you need to use the
map in MS Office.
Tim
--
Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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