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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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