Seasons Eatings all,
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?
On an unrelated note, this year marks my 10th anniversary of using linux and I've just been reflecting on how much cooler things seem now. We're a long way from the days of waiting half a day to download the latest kernel, another half a day to compile it, two more days working out how to get the new kernel to support your winmodem and then the fun of hacking X.conf :)
More stuff seems to just work these days and it feels a lot more comfortable. Or maybe that's because I've been with it for 10 years.
Anyhoo, enough rambling.
See some of you for the first pubmeet of 2010 soon :D
Steve
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,
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MJ Ray -
Steve