Since I have e-mail correspondence in German and French, I have to be able to type the non-ascii characters in a Latin-1 font. Since I found no xkb documentation, I uncommented the line Option "XkbDisable" in my XF86Config files, and I wrote a .Xmodmap file (attached). This works, but I found no way to make the backspace key work, and type non-ascii characters. I can use ^H of course for "rubout". My distro is a fairly vanilla RHL8.0, and I'm using the two Window keys on my us-104 keboard as Mode_Switch keys. Any suggestions how I could get Backspace to work? Oswald Wyler <owyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
! Converted keytable file to xmodmap file ! with mk_modmap by root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx vie nov 27 02:24:27 CET 1998 ! Modified by owyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 19 June 2003 for personal use ! with latin-1 fonts clear Mod1 ! clear Mod2 ! clear Mod3 ! clear Mod4 ! clear Mod5 ! us.map ! with some additions from quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Daniel Quinlan) ! 14 Mar 1994 ! keysym BackSpace = Control_H keycode 9 = Escape Escape Escape Escape keycode 10 = 1 exclam plusminus exclamdown keycode 11 = 2 at twosuperior Agrave keycode 12 = 3 numbersign threesuperior sterling keycode 13 = 4 dollar grave currency keycode 14 = 5 percent mu yen keycode 15 = 6 asciicircum paragraph THORN keycode 16 = 7 ampersand periodcentered brokenbar keycode 17 = 8 asterisk cedilla ordfeminine keycode 18 = 9 parenleft onesuperior diaeresis keycode 19 = 0 parenright degree copyright keycode 20 = minus underscore hyphen ssharp keycode 21 = equal plus onehalf guillemotleft keycode 22 = BackSpace Delete keycode 23 = Tab Tab Tab Tab keycode 24 = q Q ntilde Ntilde keycode 25 = w W division multiply keycode 26 = e E aring Aring keycode 27 = r R ograve Ograve keycode 28 = t T ocircumflex Ocircumflex keycode 29 = y Y ugrave Ugrave keycode 30 = u U otilde Otilde keycode 31 = i I eacute Eacute keycode 32 = o O idiaeresis Idiaeresis keycode 33 = p P eth Eth keycode 34 = bracketleft braceleft Ucircumflex ucircumflex keycode 35 = bracketright braceright Yacute yacute keycode 36 = Return keycode 37 = Control_L keycode 38 = a A aacute Aacute keycode 39 = s S oacute Oacute keycode 40 = d D adiaeresis Adiaeresis keycode 41 = f F ae AE keycode 42 = g G ccedilla Ccedilla keycode 43 = h H egrave Egrave keycode 44 = j J ecircumflex Ecircumflex keycode 45 = k K ediaeresis Ediaeresis keycode 46 = l L igrave Igrave keycode 47 = semicolon colon guillemotright masculine keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl section cent keycode 49 = grave asciitilde agrave thorn keycode 50 = Shift_L keycode 51 = backslash bar Udiaeresis udiaeresis keycode 52 = z Z uacute Uacute keycode 53 = x X oslash Ooblique keycode 54 = c C atilde Atilde keycode 55 = v V odiaeresis Odiaeresis keycode 56 = b B acircumflex Acircumflex keycode 57 = n N icircumflex Icircumflex keycode 58 = m M iacute Iacute keycode 59 = comma less notsign onequarter keycode 60 = period greater registered threequarters keycode 61 = slash question macron questiondown keycode 62 = Shift_R keycode 63 = KP_Multiply keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 65 = space nobreakspace keycode 66 = Caps_Lock keycode 67 = F1 F11 keycode 68 = F2 F12 keycode 69 = F3 F13 keycode 70 = F4 F14 keycode 71 = F5 F15 keycode 72 = F6 F16 keycode 73 = F7 F17 keycode 74 = F8 F18 keycode 75 = F9 F19 keycode 76 = F10 F20 keycode 77 = Num_Lock keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock keycode 79 = KP_7 keycode 80 = KP_8 keycode 81 = KP_9 keycode 82 = KP_Subtract keycode 83 = KP_4 keycode 84 = KP_5 keycode 85 = KP_6 keycode 86 = KP_Add keycode 87 = KP_1 keycode 88 = KP_2 keycode 89 = KP_3 keycode 90 = KP_0 keycode 94 = less greater bar keycode 95 = F11 F11 keycode 96 = F12 F12 keycode 108 = KP_Enter keycode 109 = Control_R keycode 112 = KP_Divide keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R keycode 114 = Break keycode 110 = Find keycode 98 = Up keycode 99 = Prior keycode 100 = Left keycode 102 = Right keycode 115 = Select keycode 104 = Down keycode 105 = Next keycode 106 = Insert ! Redefine the two windows keys as Mode_switch (or AltGr) keys. keycode 115 = Mode_switch keycode 116 = Mode_switch add Mod1 = Mode_switch ! Redefine the windows-menu key as [Compose key]? ! keycode 117 = Multi_key ! add Mod2 = Multi_key
