From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G0kkE-0004kY-33 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:51:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6CJlEfk012395; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:47:14 GMT Received: from astro.systems.pipex.net (astro.systems.pipex.net [62.241.163.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6CJYxD2017439 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:34:59 GMT Received: from mesh.ruskin (81-86-110-137.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.110.137]) by astro.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07B8E000076 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:34:58 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Ruskin Organization: Retired To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg loses 4 characters Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:34:57 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200607061756.04005.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200607121314.37148.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <7573e9640607121007s6d3237acqd71be0a1d23ea580@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607121007s6d3237acqd71be0a1d23ea580@mail.gmail.com> X-No-Archive: yes Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607122034.57108.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2ffef67b-f901-424d-a6d5-b2764ebe958f X-Archives-Hash: 249609b05a468f8b9b63bc1e3dbff281 On Wednesday 12 July 2006 18:07, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/12/06, Peter Ruskin 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 ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.1-r1. kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r1. 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64. gcc(GCC): 3.4.6. KDE: 3.5.2. Qt: 3.3.6. ======================================================================== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list