From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 1 16:41:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BB8106566C for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 16:41:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351A98FC18 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 16:41:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LzvnY-00089G-CE; Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:16 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id n41GfF7C020609; Fri, 1 May 2009 17:41:15 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 66B8FFCA699; Fri, 1 May 2009 17:41:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:41:10 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: PJ Message-ID: <20090501164110.GA44753@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: PJ , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <200904291041.01818.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49F85422.20403@videotron.ca> <200904291933.04052.tijl@ulyssis.org> <49F8B2D2.40409@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49F8B2D2.40409@videotron.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'http://www.shute.org.uk/' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.1.7 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:15 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 16:41:21 -0000 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. [snip] Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html