![]() As you can see, the standard Colemak makes nothing of it like I mentioned, but the standard Scandinavian layout has it as the key. May get back on that, although my solution above is pretty makeshift for now. Not used to all these gritty Linux tricks yet, but loving the possibilities. Then you should only have to edit in a few lines here and there (such as the xkb/symbols.dir file). But check the nf for the layout listings if I remember correctly, and it's entirely possible to put your new layout into a separate file so it's easy to keep backups and reimplement it on new installs. I may get back to you if you need help with it. NB: The detailed description ghen refers to is for adding a new KEYBOARD definition, not a LAYOUT definition! Your task should be a bit simpler than that I hope. After that, the other bracket was the key that seemed most logical to me and indeed I find it easy to remember and use. So it had to go and frankly I don't think it deserved the apostrophe position anyway - but I compensated by putting it on that non-AltGr key so it's very easily accessible for me. For the most common special letter (which in Norway is ø and in Denmark æ, just to illustrate the chaos we have to deal with!) I did make the deadkey acute accent a priority as it's so very important and necessary to English typists as well. I did make a point of keeping the letter å in its place as you see, also because it's the second most common of the special glyphs. ![]() Thing is, the standard Colemak isn't using the at all (merely making it a clone of the minus key) so it's up for grabs! And I've found it very convenient for the purpose of mapping the most used local glyph to, whichever country you're from. (Also, do you know how to get the new layout into the gnome keyboard layout menu?) Key ĭo you know how to "reload" an xkb symbols file? The layouts are somehow cached, so when I make a change, I need to give the variant a new name, e.g., xkb_symbols "colemak2", "colemak3", etc. Øystein Bech "DreymaR" Gadmar: Adaptations to Scandinavian and dead keys Colemak symbols for xkb on X.Org Server 7.x Shai's original mappings for the AltGr plane don't really work well enough for someone who actually uses Scandinavian I feel. The other two go to the bracket keys (æ on ) The most common special letter (it's a bit of a toss-up but I'd recommend the ø) goes on plain VK_102/LSGT (the key between the Shift and Z - or as I have it, in the middle) Backup the Colemak Symbols file (under /usr/share/x11/xkb) and edit in a few but important changes to make it all more sensible for us. Use the Compose key (with ae, o/, aa) or the default Colemak mappings for those if you use Danish very little * The layout users of the world can unite and not keep the hopeless system of scattering symbols randomly around differently for each country! * Symbol mappings for coding and shortcuts will be more sensibly placed since these usually were invented by US layout users (for instance, the tilde and caret) * You can use more out-of-the-box layouts like the Colemak in Linux X11 * You'll never again be lost on all those US mapped keyboards that pop up in your life (say, writing a password when the layout has been reset to default US mappings) * You'll get more sensible mappings (really!) * In particular, the parentheses will move one key to the right which can be confusing at first * The symbol mappings on your Danish keyboard will be wrong * You'll have to relearn some symbol keys I've actually discontinued the Norwegian Colemak because I found it better to learn and use the US setup. Nonetheless it's essential that we are able to change the layout of the onscreen keyboard while in gaming-mode as entering settings for Proton isn't intuitive when you don't know which key you have to press when using a non-QWERTY-layout.Ummm, yes, it may be dead. Sadly it's not possible to change the language of the UI (via "Personalization" > "Regional Settings") but you can at least change the date- and number-format in Desktop-mode. There you are able to add additional keyboard-layouts or remove the existing one via the "Add"-button in the middle section.Īs this is a user-setting it will persist even after System-updateds. Afterwards select "Keyboard" in the tree-view and change to the "Layout"-tab on the right side. Open the System Settings and then go to "Input Devices" in the "Hardware"-category in the tree-view on the left. It's possible to switch to a different keyboard-layout in Desktop-mode. Originally posted by darkspir:Even in Desktop Mode there is only US keyboard localization.
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