Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:07:17 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Foreign characters (Mainly Norsk) on a U.S. Keyboard... Message-ID: <200003150907.KAA24247@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:07:15 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003141357240.75538-100000@svalbard.nominum.com>
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Peter Losher writes: >Yeah, I do get that, however, it would be more useful if I could just ad= d >the Norwegian characters to a copy of the us.iso.kbd (perhaps call it >personal.kbd). So to get a "a ring" I would do a 'ALT-!' and for a "o >slash", a 'ALT-@', and so on. > >Is this possible? > >(BTW, thanks for your message!) > 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 a US keyboard, but with the Mode_switch key in combination with others I can input: =FC=F6=E4=DC=D6=C4=DF --- 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
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