From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 01:15:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E378C16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:15:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DE543D1F for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:15:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278D0FD01F; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:15:04 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42363716.4030404@locolomo.org> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 02:15:02 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050314 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl References: <20050311172121.GB74913@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <423313BC.8090000@locolomo.org> <20050314213021.GA21470@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050314213021.GA21470@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a danish locale X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:15:09 -0000 Steve Kargl wrote: > Erik, Thanks for the pointer. The above partially solved > out problem. My colleague would like to use the US keyboard > layout and switch to a Danish layout when he's interacting with > someone back home. Do you know if this is possible with xmodmap? > I'm hoping that I can set up some shell aliases that do > > setenv do_danish "xmodmap danish.keys" > setenv do_english "xmodmap english.keys" No, I personally don't like switching keyboard layouts - I want it to be the keys shown on the actual keyboard I use. It it is a matter of having the danish characters available and less important where they are, then it is posible to define meta-keys - If you or your visiting professor understands german there is an article here: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/FreeBSD/doc/umlaute/umlaute.html It seems to cover how to use xmodmap: xmodmap ${HOME}/.xmodmaprc - section 2.2.2 I generally stick with the danish keyboard - with exception of c-circonflex I don't know of any latin character I can't reproduce, so I haven't tried. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2