From kde-promo Thu Dec 20 13:09:52 2001 From: David Faure Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:09:52 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Re: KDE and the Euro symbol X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=100885410723164 On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:18, Rinse de Vries wrote: > From: David Faure > >Organization: MandrakeSoft > >To: kde-promo@mail.kde.org > >Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Re: KDE and the Euro symbol > >Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:40:18 +0100 > >Reply-To: kde-promo@mail.kde.org > > On Monday 17 December 2001 22:39, Rinse de Vries wrote: > > Op woensdag 12 december 2001 12:04, schreef David Faure: > >. > > >> However, the information is quite hidden on the KDE site. For users it's > >>hard > > >to find IMHO. > > >Sure. I didn't make it very proeminent because I thought it needed more > >input first - there's only my side of the story on that page ;) > >I got some feedback, but rather "it doesn't work for me" than helpful > >additions. > >Anyway, the above suggests that those explanations are helpful, > >which is good news ;) > > Well in the newsgroup everybody but one managed to get Eurosupport in > Linux/KDE. The guy who didn't get eurosupport is experiencing some trouble > with Xmodmap: when he does the command > xmodmap -e ... > The ¤ appears using ALTgr + E, but as soon as he places it in the file > ~/.Xmodmap, nothing happens. At his work they have the same problem, and they > are figuring out what's wrong (they recently moved from Windows to Linux/kde, > so they are quite new at it :) . As soon as they have an answer, he will > contact me what went wrong and how they fixed it. > As soon as I have this info I will contact you. As I stated in the page (IIRC), the xmodmap file is useless if you're running kxkb, it will overwrite the keyboard layout known by X. That's kxkb's job, in a way, but then it's kxkb itself that should allow customized keyboard layouts. I'm finally seeing some changes in kxkb, but I don't know yet what has been improved. > Meanwhile I have some additions: > The only problem most users experience is getting the Eurosign on their > keyboard. The howto describes how to set up Eurosupport using the Altgr-key. > However, most old keyboards in The Netherlands (like mine) don't have this > key. Just pressing the right ALT key with the E key is nog helping. Unless you associated the right alt with the mode_switch modifier, using xmodmap ;) > In the > group I suggested to look for a key on their keyboard which they never use, > then find out with xev which keycode it uses, and assign ¤ to this key. > e.g. I don't use the right Windows-key on my keyboard, so I placed > keycode 116 = EuroSign > in my Xmodmap. Good workaround, but hardly something I would recommend in the long run. That key looks like a modifier, and is situated with modifiers... having it insert a character looks a bit strange to me. But why not ;) > Another idea, when assigning a key to ¤ is no option, is using the special > character applet in Kicker. Good idea. -- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://www.kde.org/people/david.html (my real webpage is down) KDE 3.0: Konquering the Desktops _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.