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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:32:57 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... 
Message-ID:  <200003152132.WAA00696@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:11:04 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151307410.358-100000@svalbard.nominum.com> 

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Peter Losher writes:
>On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>
>> Install the xkeycaps port and use it to define a Mode_switch key
>> (I use End). With a Mode_switch as modifier you can map any key
>> to any character using xkeycaps. Then use xmodmap to load the new
>> keymap when you start X.
>
>I have tried xkeycaps, I have also tried:
>
>xmodmap -e "keycode 0x0A = 1 oslash"
>
>(Map the 'Shift-1' key from a ! to a oslash)
>
>When I do the xmodmap, and I press 'Shift-1' in xterm, I get nothing.  Is
>there some configuration setting that I am missing?
>

I don't think it's quite that simple. In my experience you definitely
need to have a Mode_shift key to get this sort of thing to work right.

---
Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de garyj@fkr.cpqcorp.net gj@freebsd.org




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