Comments on: Ascending from the ninth circle of X hell

By: frej

frej — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You are my hero!!!! Please write up the steps needed(?).
We really need to make it easy for people to add this info.

Now I only need to figure out hal so i can get keyboard backlight working. (If it’s supposed to work through hal). The commandline utility exists… but(!).

By: Alexander Larsson

Alexander Larsson — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Its hard to give a set of steps needed to do something like this due to the complexity of XKB. The best docs I found where:
http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/index.html

However, once its done its trivial for users to use.

I haven't spent any time on the backlight stuff yet, but I think David Zeuten has something for that.

By: Lalufu

Lalufu — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

So the MacBook can actually distinguish between the left and right Apple key? My (rather old) iBook fails to do that.

By: Frank Murphy

Frank Murphy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

My old iBook could distinguish between the two Alt keys — kind of. It would only generate a different key when pressing the ‘fn’ key at the same time. Not totally useful for those who are used to an AltGr key. Here’s the Apple docs on that:
I think the same behavior exists for later iBooks and the Apple keys.

Also, when you say that the ‘key to the left of “1″ and the key to the left of “z”‘ are swapped, are they swapped in the Linux console too? There are a lot of layers to Linux keyboard handling; it would be nice to fix this problem at the lowest level. (And you thought there were only 9 circles of hell!)

By: Frank Murphy

Frank Murphy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oops, I managed t hide the Apple doc URL: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G3/original_iBook/iBook.26.html

By: Alexander Larsson

Alexander Larsson — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Frank: Yes, they are swapped in the Linux console too.