Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:25:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Boisvert <boia01@gel.usherb.ca>, Christian Fortin <bsd-qc@e-c.qc.ca>, Chrystian Huot <chrystian@huot.qc.ca>, Francois Jacques <francois@qrs-sys.com>, Jean-Pierre Dumas <jphdumas@lemel.fr>, Roberto Urrea <rurrea@uwinnipeg.ca> Subject: Re: Big problems with keymaps, syscons and French caracters Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980822111446.17070D-100000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <35DCEA73.20EF2CB6@aei.ca>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Malartre wrote:
> Ok, I have edited /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/us.iso.kbd. I have added
> some french characters. It work! BUT only at the prompt without logging
> in or has root! I really dont understand why.
Look where it is /usr/share/___syscons__/keymaps/...
This is for the console! (or at least the sc0 or vt0 driver)...
This doesn't apply to X window
> Else, when I log has a
> user, its doing a crazy bell sound or in ircII, its writing letters
> without the special accent.
strange...
> <SCREENSHOT>
> f00f$ ee /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/qc.ca.kbd
> 026 '[' '{' esc esc 'ê' 'Ê' esc esc O
> 027 ']' '}' gs gs 'ç' 'Ç' gs gs O
> 039 ';' ':' nop nop 'ï' 'Ï' nop nop O
> 040 ''' '"' nop nop 'è' 'È' nop nop O
> 052 '.' '>' nop nop 'ë' 'Ë' nop nop O
> 053 '/' '?' nop nop 'é' 'É' nop nop O
how about putting a plain 'a in there? ;)
> Another problem is that Xwindows seems to not use syscons's file and to
> be independant.
indeed it is! It uses keymaps.
Check this one:
http://pages.risq.qc.ca/htran/Xmodmap
It's one a friend submitted to me yesterday... I haven't tried it, and I
don't know if it's using the alt key...
You can load it using:
xmodmap Xmodmap
! simple enough? ;)
> In that way, you simply hold ALT to use the special characters or
> alt-shift if its in upper case. The six button are the six right button
> near "enter".
The main problem is that I can't do this with X window. It doesn't seem to
know ALT! At least, I don't know how to use it...
I don't understand the syntax of the modmaps:
keycode 32 = o O ocircumflex Ocircumflex
keycode: 32 # that's ok I understand
=
o # ok, o w/o nothing
O # ok, shift-o
ocircumflex # this I don't know! What modifiers does it use?
Ocircumflex # how can I know????
Thanks for any input!
Spidey
How 'bout a little ride through your own world?
http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/
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