Re: x11-users digest, Vol 1 #304 - 6 msgs
Re: x11-users digest, Vol 1 #304 - 6 msgs
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:54:32AM -0400, Kenneth Knight wrote:
> Well after getting xkeycaps running (sorta, didn't seem to want to
> install the man pages; something went wrong with its html file too)
> and looking at the supported keyboards I see that this tiny USB
> keyboard (not the extended one, the other one - the small one
> remiscient of the old iMacs) is not on the supported list. The closest
> is the Extended II keyboard. And that one doesn't even seem to react
> when you press the command or option keys on this keyboard - control
> reacts). So maybe my problem is just that this keyboard isn't
> supported. Still that sounds unlikely to me since a powerbook keyboard
> is pretty much the same.
> By the way I am just using the stock quartz-wm window manager. Pretty
> much stock install of the whole thing (or so I think). At least
> OpenOffice works well (and xterm - ick).
My keyboard isn't officially supported either, but I got around the
problem by creating a new Apple keyboard layout for it (which of course
had the added benefit of fixing it for other Aqua programs as well).
This was a lot better than trying to fix it at the xmodmap level within
X11, which is what I tried first.
Use the page at http://wordherd.com/keyboards/ to create a Mac OS 10.2
.rsrc file (don't use the XML option, which is the default - that
creates Unicode layouts which don't work with applications which don't
support them, such as Microsoft Office and Finder)
I think the ideal is:
1) Make sure you use the above method to get the basic keyboard layout
working in all Aqua applications.
2) Then, and only then, use xmodmap to modify any modifier keys you
need. I found I don't need to modify any - everything just works in the
clients I use.
You might also want to look at the X program xev, which shows at a low
level the X11 events that its window is receiving, including keystrokes.
I find this invaluable in working out what I need to change in the
.xmodmaprc.
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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