Steve wrote:
I've been playing around with getting my laptop all nice and easy to use in a joint English / Turkish environment. I've got a key combination bound to switching the keyboard layout between GB and TR but when I do so, I lose some (but not all) of the custom keys I had set up with xmodmap.
I think what I'm really asking is: has anyone had any experience of working with a dual (or multi) language environment and do you have any nuggets of information or things to look out for? Or even just some cunning xmodmap foo I should be aware of?
I think there are three possibilities:
1. extend your key combinations to run the xmodmap commands too;
2. edit files in X11/xkb/symbols to make the custom keys part of the xkb map (might be in /etc, might be in /usr, depends on system);
3. create some dual-language keymap - this is what I do, essentially the GB layout that I learnt first, but with lots of dead accents on AltGr and the symbols, with the dead_circumflex and dead_breve that I use most often on the right menu key.
Hope that helps,