Re: [XonX-Users] Patch for darwinkeyboard.c

[Torrey T. L. <to...@mr...>]

At 8:36 PM +0200 10/25/01, Mario Klebsch wrote:
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>On Thursday, 25. October 2001 13:39, Herve Blanchon wrote:
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>>  I have a naivet user question. I am using Xfree86 version 4.1.0 and
>>  XDarwin 1.0A3, how shall I proceed to take advantage of the solutions
>>  you have be able to implement to use my apple pro keyboard with a
>>  french layout.
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>First of all, you need to compile XFree yourself. You can cd to
>xc/programs/Xserver/hw/darwin and use patch to modify darwinKeyboard.c.

For most users the easiest answer will be just use xmodmap to add the 
few extra characters you need yourself. xmodmap files have already 
been written for some languages. Mario's original reason for not 
doing this was because he uses XDMCP and he didn't want to modify his 
session, but for many people this will not be the case. Check out 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=138381&forum_id=57137 
for a complete discussion of making xmodmap files and a reference for 
a working Norwegian one. Once you have an appropriate xmodmap file, 
named for example ~/.Xmodmap, you can have this automatically loaded 
each time by just putting the following line in your .xinitrc file:

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

In the long run Mario's work is very valuable because it will allow 
all keyboards to just work without any special steps. But for most 
users patching and building XFree86 from scratch will not be the 
easiest way to get up and running.

--Torrey