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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Re: KDE and the Euro symbol
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-12-20 13:09:52
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:18, Rinse de Vries wrote:
> From: David Faure <David@mandrakesoft.com>
> > 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

 
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