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

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2015-02-11 10:02 -0800
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Subject Re: Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux?
From Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 11:24:33 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> 
> > xkb supercedes xmodmap which is increasingly unsupported
> > ie it does all of the earlier functionality and much more
> >
> > Only catch is to have to read impenetrable docs :-)
> >
> > Ive been directed to these 
> > http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb/setup.html
> > http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/index.html
> >
> > If you make some headway with these I'd like to know!
> 
> Last I checked all I could find was written in Russian, which to my
> regret, I can't read.
> 
> I think xmodmap will be there until Wayland replaces X11.

Just found these
https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2012/09/msg00274.html
(attachment)
which points to
http://madduck.net/docs/extending-xkb/

> 
> Anyway, again,
> 
>   <URL: http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/node4.html>
> 
> shows the utterly wrong approach to configuring the keyboard: you are
> supposed to touch the XF86Config-4 file. Keyboard preferences should be
> defined under $HOME with user preferences.
> 
> It appears X.org lost sight of the fact that Unix is a multiuser
> environment where every user furnishes and decorates their $HOME to
> their liking.

All true.

Doesn't change the fact that you are running out of time if you use xmodmap
(see motivations of 1st link above)

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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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