Re: Keyboard Layout Fixes (Was Re: Advanced preferences)
Re: Keyboard Layout Fixes (Was Re: Advanced preferences)
- Subject: Re: Keyboard Layout Fixes (Was Re: Advanced preferences)
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:49:15 +0100
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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What does the 'Follow System Keyboard Layout' option do (or what did it
do in Tiger)? Looking at the code now, it looks like it's a really
fancy checkbox that actually does nothing in the code. Did it work in
Tiger? Did id do what you expected in Tiger (like setup your
mode_switch key on intl keyboards)? Would fixing this to behave like
Tiger (assuming this check-box did your magic for you) solve 90% of your
problems?
I can only tell what it does on Leopard (but as far as I remember it did
the same thing on Tiger). In short, it does what it says:
When the box is checked and I switch keyboards from the International
Preferences Pane or from the menu bar drop-down menu, the keymap in X11
switches in parallel. I then have always the same keymap in X11 and outside.
When the box is unchecked, the X11 keymap remains unchanged even when I
change keyboards from the input menu. I will then have different keymaps
in X11 (for example a French azerty keyboard) and in aqua (for example a
German qwertz keyboard).
It has no influence on whether the keycode 66 is bound to Mode_switch or
to Alt_L, but of course if it is bound to Mode_switch then (and only
then) the Alt key acts as the corresponding modifier, just as it does
outside X11, so that you get, for example, | by pressing Alt-Shift-L on
a French keyboard, or Ø by pressing Alt-Shift-O on a U.S. keyboard.
--
Martin
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