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Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed
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B. T. Raven |
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Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed |
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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:05:58 -0600 |
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Peter Dyballa wrote:
Am 27.12.2007 um 18:45 schrieb B. T. Raven:
Does any of you know what xmodmap expressions I can put in some file
so that my two users (ec and su or sudo) can have the same keyboard
with bottom row super, alt, ctl, space, ctl, alt, super, hyper?
In shell you can 'man xmodmap', in GNU Emacs you have two more choices:
manual-entry and woman.
Are Mod1 thru Mod5 synonyms for these modifiers keys? More
importantly, is this system level stuff off topic here?
These are the generic symbols. You can make them being this or that or
something else. To change a previous setting (xmodmap -pm), you first
need to "reset" it:
clear Shift
clear Lock !! I think this is the only one I need to clear if the ones
below are already appropriately bound. Right?
clear Control
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
clear Mod3
clear Mod4
clear Mod5
Thanks for this. I learned more from your response that from a lot of
googling and reading man and info pages.
then ad(d)just:
add Shift = Shift_L Shift_R
! add Lock = Caps_Lock !! I want this to be Hyper_L . Will this
conflict with your Mod4 assignment below?
add Control = Control_L Control_R
! add Mod1 = Mode_switch Mode_switch !! This I don't understand
at all. Is it the M$ Menu key?
! add Mod2 = Meta_L Meta_R !! I don't need this since I
don't have a Meta key, right?
add Mod3 = Alt_L Alt_R
add Mod4 = Hyper_L Hyper_R
add Mod5 = Super_L Super_R
Generally you can set the "key bindings" like:
keycode 0x35 = n N dead_tilde U203A
keycode 66 = Meta_L
This keycode method seems like the easiest way to swap keys since I can get
the keycodes from xev. Are the above "clear" and "add" lines still needed?
In my /etc/X11/Xmodmap file (all commented out) I read:
! keycode and keysym remapping should generally be used only if the X
! server config file has been configured to disable the XKEYBOARD
! extension
Where is the server config file? Is this something I have to worry about or
can I just add these lines to that file? :
clear Lock
!.
!. maybe other expressions
!.
add Lock = Hyper_L !! Is that meaningful?
keycode 66 = Hyper_L !! is this needed even with the above add Lock expression?
keycode 37 = Super_L
keycode 115 = Alt_L !! It says Alt on the keycap.
keycode 64 = Control_L
keycode 113 = Control_R
keycode 116 = Alt_R !! Again that's on keycap. Can't I just say alt-is-meta
or something somewhere?
keycode 117 = Super_R
keycode 109 = Hyper_R
(first line hex value for key code, second example with decimal value)
First column: no modifier
Second column: with Shift modifier
Third column: with Alt modifier
Fourth column: with Shift and Alt modifiers
I read that there can be eight columns but that most apps don't support
beyond four. Does Emacs? Could I globalsetkey something to [(shift control
alt super hyper h)] ? Of course this would be difficult to touch type unless
all keychords that included the shift modifier and at least one other
modifier were made sticky. The whole point of this for me is to be able to
touch type most keychord combinations.
The names are defined in /usr/X11/include/X11/keysymdef.h.
In Fedora 8 this was in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h
Multi_key is a nice thing: pressing Multi_key o / could produce ø. Not
sure whether it's still supported ...
I want to do all this sort of thing with Emacs (leim) input methods.
--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen
Pete
Eat the rich – the poor are tough and stringy.
Thanks again. If you don't have time to answer this I can probably figure it
out with some (a lot) of experimenting but I don't know what's safe and
what's dangerous.
Ed
- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, B. T. Raven, 2007/12/25
- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, Andreas Eder, 2007/12/25
- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, B. T. Raven, 2007/12/25
- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, Rupert Swarbrick, 2007/12/25
- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, Peter Dyballa, 2007/12/26
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- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, B. T. Raven, 2007/12/27
- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, Peter Dyballa, 2007/12/27
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- Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed, Peter Dyballa, 2007/12/28