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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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