[PLUG] Keyboard mapping

[Russell Evans]

xkeycaps allows you to swap keys as well as choose a keyboard type.
http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/

Thank you
Russell


On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 23:47:23 -0800 (PST), Robert Kopp said:

> There is a non-hacky way to obtain Russian keyboard
>  input, as you can see: ôûâàäó
>  
>  This was obtained by changing a line in
>  /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 from 
>  
>  Option      "XkbLayout"          "us_group3"
>  
>  to
>  
>  Option      "XkbLayout"          "ru"
>  Option      "XkbOptions"         "grp:shift_toggle"
>  
>  So what's the problem? Foreigners who learn Russian as
>  an acquired language, me for example, are accustomed
>  to the qwerty keyboard, and can type more easily with
>  a different keyboard mapping than the one used by the
>  Russians. Is there an easy way to do that? For
>  example,  ô, the Russian symbol for F, should be on
>  our F key, but it's on our A key. That's the key I
>  pressed to obtain it after switching alphabets.      
>  
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