Re: [K12OSN] keyboard layout

[Guy Lessard <glessard coll-outao qc ca>]

Here in Québec, we use the CF (Canadian French) Keyboard layout, it uses
the basic US keyboard layout (qwerty) instead of the French (Azerty)
layout.
Monday, i will look into this.



robert a écrit :

> hi paul,
> this is what I've discovered so far -
> there's more than one way to turn on a light- :))
> run  the command:
> xev  to get the keycodes for your keyboard
>
> keycodes need to be translated to XFree86 format (HEX)
> view list at:
> /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86
>
> Jamie Zawinski wrote a gui keymap script called
> xkeycaps with 40+ keyboard layouts,it will create
> a .xmodmap in $HOME, in effect each user could switch
> keyboards on the fly, however it solves only part of the problem.
>
> XFree86 states you could have 3 layouts using the meta key or ALT_R key
> however in ltsp it hasn't worked for me-
>
> so from what I gather there are two ways (maybe more) to customize
> your keyboard.
>
> add a script to $HOME/.bash_profile or .xsession with new keymap,
>
> add .xmodmap to $HOME/
>
> add keyboard entries to lts.conf and use the iso keyboard layouts
> found in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/ or modify them to
> your needs.
>
> for me I need a bilingual english US/french ca layout
> however the keymaps the way they are is useless, you'll see why-
>
> -XFree86
> XkbModel (pc101-106 or a known brand)
> XkbLayout (keycodes)
> XkbSymbols (caracters,ie:en,fr,latin,asian....)
> XKBOptions (I think this is for meta keys)
>
> for french the best layout is fr. it has all the french symbols
> but the keyboard is completely different from us -Q is replaced with A
> among other keys,so its too difficult to memorize both.
> The ca_enhanced layout only has one usefull ALT_R key -egrave.
>
> with MS you can use ALT_R + decimal codes on the number pad for a
> caracter map. XFree86 is nt setup to do this.
> that's as far as I've gotten so far-
>
> reference:
> http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/mini-HOWTO/Intkeyb-4.php3
> http://reviewed.homelinux.org/en/xfreekeyboard.html
> http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/
>
> robert
>
>
>
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