assign keyboard keys

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2011-03-06 14:40:44 skrev Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>:

> Good evening from JapanI have been loyal Wordperfect user for a long  
> time, but the software
>     gives me lately a lot of grief.Thus, I am considering to permanently  
> switch to Libreoffice (have
>     been using Openoffice on and off in the past).Question:Wordperfect  
> has a handy little function, that allows the user to
>     assign just about everything to individual keys, including which
>     letter they represent.Since I am a German, but live in Japan where I  
> am used to machines
>     which have basically the American keyboard layout,I cherished this  
> Wordperfect function, because it allowed me to
>     assign the letter "y" and "z" to their respective opposite  
> position.That means, if I switch under Windows to the German keyboard  
> layout,
>     the "y" comes to lie where "z" is printed on the key and vice versa.
>     The WP function allows me to change that, so that I get a "y", where
>     it is printed on the key, even while using the German keyboard
>     layout.This is not essential, but I have been used to that layout  
> for my
>     typing.
>
> For Windows I was directed to:
> Depending on your Windows version "The Microsoft Keyboard Layout
> Creator" might be the right tool for you.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665
>
> You believe it? That works. Now, when I switch to a German keyboard  
> layout EVERY software uses the newly created/modified keyboard.
>
> Is there anything like that for Linux?
> I tried "xfkc", but although it gives me a long list of possible  
> layouts, it does not show how each of these layouts actually looks like.
> AND, even though I chose the "querty" layout, I cannot see any change.
> Maybe I am doing something wrong, but this does not seem to work.
> Anything else?
>
> Thank you.
>

Xfkc? Have never heard of that, sorry.

I use Ubuntu since a 2007 and I have had my own keyboard layout since a  
few years back. I don't know of any software that does this for you, so I  
just edited the ”evdev” files and the keyboard layout files. How you do it  
is different depending on what you want to achieve.
If you use the Gnome desktop environment, you can see a layout before you  
actually choose it and you can also have many different layouts and easily  
switch between them by a keyboard shortcut or clicking an icon in the  
upper panel.

There are hundreds of layouts to choose between so I find it likely that  
you'll find what you are looking for.

Here is my own layout (sorry that the picture is turned 90°):  
http://ubuntuone.com/p/CEY/
Note that I can type with my arrow keys and more (tab, backspace, home,  
end and so on) if I use the AltGr key (the right Alt key if you don't have  
an AltGr key).


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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg