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Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux?

From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux?
Date 2015-02-11 19:12 +0200
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Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>:

> On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 6:06:03 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> The problem with xkbmap is that I don't know how to specify a new
>> keyboard map as a regular user. I know how to do that with .Xmodmap.
>
> Xmodmap is neat... but obsolete

Still, if xkbmap can't do what I need, I'm left with no option.

Reading up on it at

  <URL: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_Xorg>

I used xkbcomp to dump my current keyboard definition. It produced a
somewhat cryptic .xkb file of 1904 lines!

My .Xmodmap, which remaps almost every single key on my keyboard
contains 55 lines.

The document has a funny view to keyboard layout:

  Consider making it a service launching after X starts, since reloaded
  configurations do not survive a system reboot.

A regular user usually doesn't control system services. Plus, every user
will likely have their personal keyboard layout preferences.


Marko

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Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-02-10 15:05 -0600
  Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-02-11 00:10 +0000
  Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-10 19:05 -0800
    Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-11 15:10 +1100
      Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 15:19 +1100
        Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-10 20:42 -0800
        Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 04:22 -0800
          Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-11 14:35 +0200
            Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 04:57 -0800
              Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-11 19:12 +0200
                Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 11:23 -0600
                Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-11 19:27 +0200
                Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 09:34 -0800
                Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-02-11 19:54 +0200
                Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 10:02 -0800
                Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-02-11 19:01 +0100
          Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 04:40 -0800
      Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-10 20:23 -0800
        Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-11 15:38 +1100
  Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-02-11 01:01 -0800

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