Using international keyboards under XDarwin!

dani++

usin UNIX since '92
Hey,

I have had this problem for so long... It seems keyboard mapping support for international keyboards is incomplete and/or unsupported in XDarwin.

Myself, I use a ISO Spanish keyboard (works perfect with the ISO selection in OSX) that fails to work on XDarwin. Seesh, one has to manage typing on the US underlying keymapping over the Spanish layout.

However, after digging for some time (days actually), stumbled onto the 'xmodmap' and 'xev' commands from XWindows.

'xmodmap' lets you see and change the key-char mappings of the keyboard. And 'xev' lets you easily debug which keys correspond to which key codes.

I have compiled a preliminary Spanish layout 'xmodmap' script that maps most of the keys. Yes! Now I can work under X without any problems whatsoever. :D

I have some keys missing (notably the diaeresis) and the Euro symbol (which I think is not yet available on XWindows).

Once I have a completely working set I will post it here.

dani++
 
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