So, I have a somewhat weird question regarding custom keyboard mapping

Deusdies · 2011-03-06 10:08:55

No room in the title, but this thread should be marked as [SOLVED]. Because that's what it is. Solved.

I'm from Serbia. In Serbian language, we have a few extra characters: š,đ,č,ć,ž

With Shift+Alt I can switch between keyboard layouts. However, this can sometimes be a hassle more than it seems to be.

There is a small app for Windows called srpskey. Basically what it does is it every time you type cx, it immediately replaces it with č. When you type cq, it's ć, dq is đ, zx is ž, and finally sx is š. Being as that English and Serbian barely ever use cx,cq, etc, this is VERY convenient and now I'm used to typing that way.

I tried wine, alas no luck. Is there a way I could make this work under Linux?

Last edited by Deusdies (2011-03-06 11:23:10)

Cody · 2011-03-06 10:15:00

I think something like autokey would work.

Deusdies · 2011-03-06 11:04:53

Holy crap it worked! Took a while to figure out API, but it works! For future reference, this is basically what script looks like for one character:

system.exec_command("setxkbmap me") #me = montenegro keyboard. rs equals in cyrilic, I don't need that
keyboard.send_keys("[")
system.exec_command("setxkbmap us")

Thanks a lot man!

Last edited by Deusdies (2011-03-06 11:05:07)

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So, I have a somewhat weird question regarding custom keyboard mapping

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