russian xkblayout
Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
doublef at tele-kom.ru
Thu Oct 30 04:19:37 PST 2003
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:51:18 +0300 (MSK) Alexey Koptsevich <kopts at astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> probably wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After recent reinstallation of X I cannot use Russian layout anymore. With
> the old release (4.1.0), I had two lines in the XF86Config file which did
> the job:
> Option "XkbLayout" "ru"
It should be
Option "XkbLayout" "us,ru"
It works, though no docs say that.
> Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shift_toggle"
> They installed the map with columns 1,2 filled with Latin keysyms, and
> columns 3,4 filled with Cyrillic keysyms (as reported by 'xmodmap -pk' or
> xkeycaps), and double shift switched the layout.
>
> With the new release of X (4.3.0), and with the above options in the
> XF86Config retained, I get the map with columns 1,2 filled with Cyrillic
> keysyms, and columns 3,4 empty :(
>
> OK, if XKB method does not work, I tried to switch back to older scheme,
> xruskb with XkbLayout "en". This way, the columns are switched (as
> reported by xkeycaps), but only empty keysyms are generated in Russian
> mode (as reported by xev). Were there some changes on the way between
> these two version of X? I cannot find anything in the docs or lists...
>
> Any idea would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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DoubleF
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