[ltp] Thinkpads and XKB - keyboard geometry

[Richard Neill]

Do you know about Alt-Gr?

Eg Alt-Gr + M   => greek letter mu

Also, the characters  [];'# are sticky with Alt-Gr eg:

Alt-Gr + ;   and then E => e-acute

This is the default, at least on Mandrake.

Best wishes

Richard





Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Has anyone spent any effort figuring out the most suitable Xkb layout 
> for a Thinkpad?
> 
> I'd like to have/make a keyboard layout that allows for easy use 
> creation of accented or other symbols without being silly. In my system 
> (Mandrake 9.1) I have the keyboard set to us_intl. This allows typing of 
> the two characters "^" and "o" to give ô, but the mapping should be 
> smart enough to know that typing "^M" should give "^M" since there's no 
> such character as circumflex-M. Windows can do that, why shouldn't X be 
> able to?
> 
> Then there's the issue of the geometry. Thinkpads (and most laptops) 
> don't have all the keys of a regular 105-key keyboard -- the "windows" 
> keys aren't there. Yet there are other keys (the "thinkpad" key and the 
> two keys on either side of the "up"key. If these keys send scancodes we 
> should be able to use them.
> 
> Has anyone tried to do customization of the Xkb setup for Thinkpads? 
> Failing that, documentation on rolling one's own may be in order.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Evan
>