Help with configuring my keyboard.
Felix Karpfen
felixk at webone.com.au
Thu Mar 21 09:33:32 EST 2002
Nemo - earth native wrote:
>
> Both my kb at home and work are non-MS 104keys keyboards... (probably
> the same brand/model actually, I aint sure ;)
>
> ...The left windowskey is a modifier. (Meta_L according to xev)
> ...The right windowskey is not (MultiKey)
>
> I don't know is this is how it was intended or not, or is a result of
> not being a "Microsoft brand" 104kb ...but it certainly gave me no end
> of grief while tryign to get my wmanager setup ideally...
Firstly, I would like to thank all who were good enough to reply and
share their experience of keyboard configurations.
Secondly, I have to report that, in the interval, I tried to get a bit
more info myself. The results explained some of my observations but
were not encouraging.
Apparently, KDE 2 - which I use - has a bug that results in the entries
in my XF86Config file from not being read when KDE loads (something to
do with incorrectly configured soft links).. That explains my
observation relating to the discrepancy between the supposed XF86Config
values and my actual values.
It looks as though my gamble to use a 105keys International keyboard was
more or less correct (I have feeble aspirations to type in German and
French). However, that does not do the whole job. I also need to set
(in KDE) my primary keyboard layout to "US English w/ deadkeys".
When I do that I get:
keycode name function
37 Left Control Control_L
64 Left Alt Alt_L
115 Left Window Super_L
113 Right Alt Mode Switch
116 Right Window Multi_key
117 Right (Win)Start Start key
And, of course, the "deadkeys" setting has other consequences that are a
real pain. The point of the original article that started me down this
track was to reconfigure some of the unused keys so that the "deadkeys"
setting would not need to be used. The routine suggested in the article
will not work with a KDE window manager until the bug gets fixed.
But, apart from the deadkey problems, I am still in the dark about what
the differently-configured keys are supposed to achieve. From tests on
my (experimental) setup, the Start key and the Multi_key appear to do
nothing observable and the Mode Switch implements the "compose" routines
(my documentation says that the Multi_key is supposed to do that). And
I can find no reference whatever to Super_L.
So, confusion continues to rain.
Felix Karpfen
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Felix Karpfen
felixk at webone.com.au
Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)
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