From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 13:35:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peedub.muc.de (peedub.muc.de [193.149.49.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09B437BFEB for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:35:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA00696; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:32:57 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003152132.WAA00696@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Peter Losher Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:11:04 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:32:57 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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