[OpenIndiana-discuss] missing deadkeys in be keyboard

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Hi,

Mate comes with a keyboard selection tool. You can choose there from 
different layouts for Belgian keyboards as I checked now.
As far as I can tell you'll need to start the ibus service to make the 
deadkey functionality working. There is also a Mate tool for it.

Andreas

Am 18.01.22 um 11:51 schrieb Marc Lobelle:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Apparently, the BE keyboard is decribed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be.
>
> However, the deadkeys are present in this file, as shown below
>
>    // based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/be' file
>
>    default partial alphanumeric_keys
>    xkb_symbols "basic" {
>
>         include "latin"
>
>         name[Group1]="Belgian";
>
>         key <AE01>    { [ ampersand,          1, bar,
>    exclamdown ]    };
>         key <AE02>    { [    eacute,          2, at, oneeighth ]    };
>         key <AE03>    { [  quotedbl,          3, numbersign,
>    sterling ]    };
>         key <AE04>    { [apostrophe,          4, onequarter,
>    dollar ]    };
>         key <AE05>    { [ parenleft,          5, onehalf,
>    threeeighths ]    };
>         key <AE06>    { [   section,          6, asciicircum,
>    fiveeighths ]    };
>         key <AE07>    { [    egrave,          7, braceleft,
>    seveneighths ]    };
>         key <AE08>    { [    exclam,          8, bracketleft,
>    trademark ]    };
>         key <AE09>    { [  ccedilla,          9, braceleft,
>    plusminus ]    };
>         key <AE10>    { [    agrave,          0, braceright,
>    degree ]    };
>         key <AE11>    { [parenright,     degree, backslash,
>    questiondown ]    };
>         key <AE12>    { [     minus, underscore, dead_cedilla,
>    dead_ogonek ]    };
>
>         key <AD01>    { [         a,          A, at,
>    Greek_OMEGA ]    };
>         key <AD02>    { [         z,          Z, lstroke,      Lstroke
>    ]    };
>         key <AD03>    { [         e,          E, EuroSign,         cent
>    ]    };
>         key <AD09>  { [         o,          O, oe, OE ] }; //
>    o O œ Œ
>         key <AD11>    { [dead_circumflex, dead_diaeresis, bracketleft,
>    dead_abovering ] };
>         key <AD12>    { [    dollar,   asterisk, bracketright,
>    dead_macron ]    };
>
>         key <AC01>    { [         q,          Q, ae,           AE ]    };
>         key <AC10>    { [         m,          M, dead_acute,
>    dead_doubleacute ] };
>
> Thus apparently, the BE keyboard is not the be keyboard described in 
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be.
>
> Does anyone know where the keyboards tha are effectively used are 
> located and/or how to use the good one, described in 
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
> On 18/01/2022 00:24, Marc Lobelle wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Apparently there are no dead keys in the BE keyboard. Is there a way 
>> to activate them  in order to easily type â in libreoffice for 
>> instance ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>
>> Marc Lobelle
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>>
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