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Attempting to create a custom keyboard layout.

probably xmodmap and/or xkeymap are the solution.

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Originally Posted by pan64 (Post 5842225)

probably xmodmap and/or xkeymap are the solution.

Right.

However, when you alter a lot of the default key-maps for xmodmap, i.e. when the xmodmap.[country-code] becomes somewhat “huge”, it takes time to load it. If you need to test your new settings or for other reasons want to call xmodmap on such a configuration, it may block your input for a while. Used on system start-up, it may take a little longer than with the standard-settings.

xmodmap is great, however, when you want to alter or add only a few keys. One mapping-file that I use is just this:

Code:

! Ω and @

keycode  24 = q Q q Q at Greek_OMEGA at

! œ and Œ 

keycode  32 = o O o O oe OE oe

! λ and Λ (greek_lambda)

keycode  46 = l L l L U03BB U039B U03BB  

! δ and Δ (greek_delta)

keycode  40 = d D d D U03B4 U0394 U03B4

! ω (greek_omega)

keycode  25 = w W w W U03C9

! ✅ and ✔

keycode  44 = j J j J U2705 U2714

I do not know, when the file becomes too big to be loaded swiftly nor what else can have an influence.

Ω

Xmodmap is ok for altering the odd key, but it doesn't always play well with the Xorg system.

If you use the command
setxkbmap -print
you can see how your keyboard driver is created. In mine, the output
xkb_symbols { include "pc+gb+gr:2+astro:3+inet(evdev)+group(shift_caps_toggle)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" };
shows that it's using 7 files from /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. The ones that relate to the alphanumeric parts of the keyboard are gb, gr, and astro.

You will presumably have "us" instead. Your placement of é shows how things work:
key <AC03> { [ e, E, eacute, Eacute ] };
shows that the third key (03) in the third alphanumeric row (AC) gives "e E é É" with Shift, ThirdLevelShift, and both together. So, it's quite easy to re-write these things. For example, my gb gives phonetic symbols on levels 3 and 4, while astro gives astrological ones.

Don't forget that you can also get diacritics with a Compose key (I use the Windows menu key for that). This can be customised with a ~/.XCompose file. Thus mine includes
<Multi_key> <t> <l> : "ƛ" U019B # Latin small LAMDA with stroke
<Multi_key> <comma> <s> : "ș" U0219 # Latin small S with comma below

As for the flag, you can customise that
https://winaero.com/blog/custom-flag...yboard-layout/
If you create your own flags, you can convert png or jpg to svg with Image Magic's convert or mogrify commands.

Thanks guys!

It looks like I'm going to have to talk to this Steffen Bruentjen guy, see if I can collaborate a bit with him with our somewhat similar goals.

I will keep things updated.