[SOLVED] Typing accents

DavidMcCann · 09-14-2017, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David S

Doesn't work with my UK keyboard.

It's not supposed to! The US keyboard driver is not the same as the UK one.

273 · 09-14-2017, 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

It's not supposed to! The US keyboard driver is not the same as the UK one.

That shouldn't make a difference. The issue here is getting the Win key to work in the same way as Alt-Gr rather than being "something else".

Emerson · 09-14-2017, 12:43 PM

Code:

~ $ cat .Xmodmap 
keycode 133 = Mode_switch
keycode  13 = 4 dollar 4 cent
keycode  24 = q Q otilde Otilde
keycode  26 = e E EuroSign cent
keycode  30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis
keycode  32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
keycode  38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis
keycode  39 = s S scaron Scaron
keycode  40 = d D degree
keycode  52 = z Z zcaron Zcaron
keycode  58 = m M Greek_mu

Should be self-explanatory?

273 · 09-14-2017, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

Code:

~ $ cat .Xmodmap 
keycode 133 = Mode_switch
keycode  13 = 4 dollar 4 cent
keycode  24 = q Q otilde Otilde
keycode  26 = e E EuroSign cent
keycode  30 = u U udiaeresis Udiaeresis
keycode  32 = o O odiaeresis Odiaeresis
keycode  38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis
keycode  39 = s S scaron Scaron
keycode  40 = d D degree
keycode  52 = z Z zcaron Zcaron
keycode  58 = m M Greek_mu

Should be self-explanatory?

Yes, but...
The UI gives a way to set these things up without (at least directly) editing the files and it's not that difficult. The UI way also works with other keyboard layouts as there's no hard-coding involved.

Emerson · 09-14-2017, 01:38 PM

I'm sure there are UI's for everything nowadays. There is none in my computers. I do not use ready-to-use desktop environments, my solutions are desktop agnostic. Also, xmodmap works with any keyboard layout.

David S · 09-14-2017, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

What did you do to configure the dead key to switch modes?

How do you do that?

Emerson · 09-14-2017, 01:44 PM

You pull your current configuration.

Code:

xmodmap -pk > keymap

Then you make your corrections, and create your ~/.Xmodmap file.
Load it.

Code:

xmodmap ~./Xmodmap

Note, traditional Linux setups will load it automatically. Modern Desktop Environments may ignore conventions, in this case you need to load it by hand every time or find a way to load it automatically using mechanisms provided by your DE.

Rickkkk · 09-14-2017, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David S

Thank you I did read that before but I didn't didn't know the term you used,(LXDE) sorry I didn't come back to you then.

As I said, I am new to Linux and still trying to get my head around it all. I am getting a bit long in the tooth and my brain doesn't cope so well with learning new things as it did when I was younger.

Hi David_S,

LXDE is the name of the desktop environment (the graphical user interface, or GUI) used with Lubuntu. Sorry I didn't think of specifying that.

Again, the most common way to resolve this very common need is as I suggested in post #13:

- modify your xorg configuration to enable a second keyboard layout. This can be done by creating a file in your /etc/xorg.conf.d directory called 00-keyboard.conf. The contents of this file would be along these lines:

Code:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "uk,ca"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

- Add the Keyboard Layout Handler applet to your panel in LXDE (your desktop environment's lower panel). This is done by right-clicking on an empty part of the task bar panel and choosing "Add Remove Panel Items". Then choose "Keyboard Layout Handler". A little flag should then appear in your task bar denoting the input language then active. In my case this is the US flag when I am using a US English keyboard layout and a Canadian flag when using the Canadian French keyboard layout. The 2 options identified in the above file as "XkbLayout" determine your keyboard layout language choices - you can use different ones if you like.

The "grp:alt_shift_toggle" options identifies the ALT-SHIFT key combination as the keyboard layout switching hotkey combination. Again, several are supported.

Hope this helps !