diff --git a/how_to b/how_to index 23ae062..1c66364 100644 --- a/how_to +++ b/how_to @@ -1069,9 +1069,45 @@ Run studiotax on wine: wine ./StudioTax2017Install.exe /extract msiexec /i StudioTax.msi -Easily switch to russian phonetic keyboard: - setxkbmap fr,ru -variant ,phonetic -option grp:shift_caps_toggle - man xkeyboard-config # get list of possible toggles +Xkb: + Easily switch to russian phonetic keyboard: + setxkbmap fr,ru -variant ,phonetic -option grp:shift_caps_toggle + man xkeyboard-config # get list of possible toggles + + Customisation notes: + - https://web.archive.org/web/20190724015820/http://pascal.tsu.ru/en/xkb + - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/blob/master/docs/README.enhancing?ref_type=heads + - https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/group__state.html#consumed-modifiers + - https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/user-configuration.html + - https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/user-configuration.html#autotoc_md16 + - https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/rule-file-format.html + - https://www.charvolant.org/doug/xkb/html/xkb.html + - https://medium.com/@damko/a-simple-humble-but-comprehensive-guide-to-xkb-for-linux-6f1ad5e13450 + - https://github.com/isti115/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/xkb/symbols/Lenovo-Y50 + - https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/101417 + - https://delapouite.com/ramblings/xkb-walkthrough/ + - https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/17 + - https://stackoverflow.com/a/45042841 + + Libxkbcommon is more flexible and modern in term of looking to ~/.xkb + and ~/.config/xkb as well as /usr/share/X11/xkb for config, but + unfortunately X11(?) isn't, and will only look into the system path. + + Except for a single `custom` layout left free: + - https://blog.nemirwen.me/posts/fr-oss-ansi-xkb-layout + - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/merge_requests/189/diffs + + Also while libxkbcommon seems to rely more on rules files, X11 and so + setxkbmap seems to rely more on the xml descriptors. (supposition) + Also xorg's XKB rules syntax doesn't have %S or %H for recursive includes + `strace` is a very good tool to debug this mess. + + Most people on the internet seem to rely on editing existing layout, + which feels icky to me. + + Custom key type for Ctrl+Alt as AltGr: + - https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/187495 + Image/photo sorting with feh: feh --action1 'mv -v %F "/path/to/target/"%N' \