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After messing around with dvorak, svorak and everything inbetween i have settled with dvorak, the only problem is that i miss the åäö keys. I write most of my stuff in english, but a little now and then i need the swedish letters. I tend to like the location of the punctation keys in dvorak so i want to add åäö to for example alt gr+'/,/. Should i edit the keyboard files for that, or is it smarter to use xmodmap or similar for that?
Btw, what does the americans use the alt gr key for when it isn't needed for the punctation keys?
Last edited by hatten (2009-04-28 19:48:28)
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Could somebody point me to a howto or similar?
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Create a .Xmodmap file with something like
keycode 38 = a A aogonek Aogonek
and put "xmodmap .Xmodmap" in ~/.xprofile. You can get the keycodes using xev.
Here's my xmodmap file with colemak adapted to Polish.
Last edited by lucke (2009-05-03 12:22:49)
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k, now ie ohould werk. Bue i made a lieele mioeake and eneered wrong keycodeo firoe, edieing ehem didn'e remove ehe old changeo. I bee ie io ao eaoy ao reoeareing X bue i cannee do ehae for anoeher 40 minueeeo. xD
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Run "setxkbmap dvorak".
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Btw, what does the americans use the alt gr key for when it isn't needed for the punctation keys?
I still use it whenever I want to type foreign characters.
Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-08-03 14:23:09)
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Now it works in xterm, but both firefox and openoffice opens a menu or similar when i press alt gr+h or something else. I don't get any special signs for those key combinations that doesn't generate a menu.
I'm not sure that my .Xmodmap is seen at all, in xterm i get hellofalot of weird characters with alt gr combos, but those that i specified are in completely other places.
this is my xmodmap
keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis
keycode 39 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
keycode 40 = e E aring Aring
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kind of solved, i realized that i could write åäö in xterm, with alt gr. I haven't choosen where those are supposed to be so it is pretty uncomfortable, but it works.
It doesn't work in any other place that i know, so i have to do my homework in vi, instead of in openoffice, and to write mails in swedish i have to write in vi and copy+paste into firefox.
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