[ltp] Gnome 2.6 and those Next Window keys

[Loic Minier]

Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr> - Fri, Jun 04, 2004:

> I've managed to get a keyboard that works almost as I want, but as
> you will see, my solution is quite ugly. 

 Erf, I've spent some time this afternoon coming to something close to
 your configuration, and I think there's nothing cleaner right now.

 Looking at what you did, I see I've gone a bit uglier than you did.
   I went in /etc/X11/xkb, and looked at every step of the translation,
 and:
 - copied geometry/pc to geometry/thinkpad, kept only the pc102 geometry
   I was using, and search for "<UP>", added "<PGL>" and "<PGR>" around
   it.
 - created a keycodes/thinkpad with:
    xkb_keycodes "thinkpad" {
        <PGR> = 233;
        <PGL> = 234;
    };
 - created a symbols/thinkpad with:
    partial hidden alphanumeric_keys modifier_keys 
    xkb_symbols "basic" {
        key  <PGL> {    [  XF86Back             ]       };
        key  <PGR> {    [  XF86Forward          ]       };
    };
 - updated the ".dir" files accordingly

 The geometry is clearly wrong, since I should adjust the xposition of
 the block, and I still have to write a keymap, I tried something like:
    default xkb_keymap "thinkpad" {
        xkb_keycodes        { include "xfree86+aliases(azerty)+thinkpad(thinkpad)"       };
        xkb_types           { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat          { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols         { include "pc/pc(pc102)+pc/fr+thinkpad"     };
        xkb_geometry        { include "thinkpad(thinkpad)"     };
    };
  ... but this wouldn't work with "setxkbmap thinkpad", nor "setxkbmap
  -config thinkpad".

 After a while, I understood setxkbmap also takes a -keycode argument
 not listed in the man page (this bug has been reported), and the most
 important thing I'd like to say is:
 DON'T TRUST "setxkbmap -print", IT'S F***ING WRONG!

 I hope I'll have more time to look into this ( now that my exam is
 over \o/ ) and I think someone should write a decent geometry and
 keymap file for the thinkpad.  I still don't get how the NumLock magick
 is supposed to work, but thanks for the tip!

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>