Re: [gentoo-user] Modify keymap

[Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot! ØØØ :)

Best regards,

Wen

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Xianwen Chen



On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Vincent Launchbury
<vincent@doublecreations.com> wrote:
> Xianwen Chen wrote:
>> I can't use the letter "ø" because this key doesn't exist on an en_US
>> keyboard.
>>
>> To solve this problem, I want to modify the layout file, to set the
>> "Windows" key to "ø". Does anyone know which file shall I touch?
>
> You might be able to use x11-apps/xmodmap. Grab x11-apps/xev to find out
> the keycode, which is usually 115 for the windows key:
>
> Run xev and press the key, then watch for output like:
>  state 0x0, keycode 115, ...
>
> Then get the keysym for ø by doing:
> $cat /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h |grep -i oslash
> #define XK_Oslash 0x00d8 /* U+00D8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE */
> #define XK_oslash 0x00f8 /* U+00F8 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE */
>
> Then create ~/.Xmodmap, here's the relevant part of my file:
> $cat ~/.Xmodmap |grep 115
> keycode 115 = 0x00f8
>
> Then, the command:
> $xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
> is required to make the changes, so just add it to your .xinitrc or the
> startup file for whatever desktop environment you're running.
>
> This works fine for me in anything that supports unicode, although
> strangely it doesn't work in xterm.
>
> Note that I'm not using dvorak, but I don't see that making a
> difference. Good luck :). øøø!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Vincent.
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