Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:41:10 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching Message-ID: <20090501164110.GA44753@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49F8B2D2.40409@videotron.ca> References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <200904291041.01818.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49F85422.20403@videotron.ca> <200904291933.04052.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49F8B2D2.40409@videotron.ca>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 04:04:34PM -0400, PJ wrote: > [snip] > > > > > Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY > > If you have Canadian Multilingual Standard, this option needs to be set > > to "ca(multi)". If you have Canadian French, set it to "ca" or > > "ca(fr)". > > This does not set it to the Canadian French; nor can I find anything > that does... only my lame setup works using the French azerty (which is > rather a pain because it involves complicated finger moves to get the > accented characters - I'm familiar with it and can use it; it's just a pita. To some extent it depends what applications you use. I use vim & LaTeX. In vim I can get digraphs for email etc. :help dig For hardcopy I use LaTeX for some Finnish and, for example, umlauts are \"{o} etc. So basically I don't need a foreign keyboard because my applications sort that out for me. I'd recommend using applications that don't need digraphs entering from the keyboard. > > > >> Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle" > > > > If you don't need layout switching just delete this. > I guess I wasn't clear. Toggling was meant to mean switching back and > forth; switching - just once. I would like to use switching but it seems > to only work one way. Can't switch back. rtAlt switches from us to the > ca (which oddly seems to mean French, but nothing to do with Canadian or > French Canadian. Only fluxbox brings it back and then rtAlt no longer > works. Weird. > Any idea where the documentation is for this? Check out ~/.fluxbox/keys and that it's not interfering. There's a manpage for it: fluxbox-keys(5) > The man page is rather foggy and has no mention of XkbOptions or > XkbLayout or anything about "grp:toggle" The X docs are a disgrace IMHO. Where are the docs about the new options such as dontZap etc? They don't seem to exist.</rant> [snip] Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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