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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:34:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607122034.57108.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607121007s6d3237acqd71be0a1d23ea580@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:07, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Now I feel such a fool!  My favourite monospace font Luxi Mono
> > can't reproduce these characters.  I can see them clearly with
> > Courier or Courier New fonts :-)
>
> Ah.  FYI, I spent a few minutes trying to get the same key
> mappings to work, but I got stuck at not being able to get one of
> my keys to become AltGr!  Sorry I never got the chance to get
> back to it.  BTW, am I the only one who gets dizzy from trying to
> figure out how xkb actually works?
>
You aren't the only one.  While trying to fix my perceived problem I 
searched through the documentation provided by xorg-docs.  All I 
got was a headache.  I wish there were a user-friendly doc that 
explained all those config options like XkbOptions, XkbLayout, etc.

-- 
Peter
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2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64.		gcc(GCC): 3.4.6.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-12 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-06 16:56 [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters Peter Ruskin
2006-07-06 17:06 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-06 23:25   ` Peter Ruskin
2006-07-07  3:14     ` Richard Fish
2006-07-07 10:11       ` Peter Ruskin
2006-07-07 12:38         ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-07-12 12:14         ` Peter Ruskin
2006-07-12 17:07           ` Richard Fish
2006-07-12 19:34             ` Peter Ruskin [this message]
2006-07-12 19:59               ` [gentoo-user] XKB docs Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-12 21:29                 ` Peter Ruskin
2006-07-06 18:08 ` [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters Vladimir G. Ivanovic

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