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Add German letters (diaereses/umlaut) and currency signs to English X11 keyboard layouts
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| // Nils Toedtmann https://github.com/nilstoedtmann 2017-01-25 | |
| // | |
| // Add German letters (diaereses/umlauts and Eszett) and currency | |
| // signs to selected English keyboard layouts on level3 (<AltGr>) | |
| // | |
| // Save as /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/deng. To load: | |
| // | |
| // setxkbmap deng # US-based | |
| // setxkbmap 'deng(gb)' # UK-based | |
| // | |
| // In order to get listed in Gnome's/Unity's keyboard settings dialog, | |
| // add the layout 'deng' and its flavour 'gb' to | |
| // /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.{lst,xml} and restart X. See | |
| // https://gist.github.com/nilstoedtmann/e9de2394194a6c8381a4daaf13b79919 | |
| // for details. | |
| // | |
| // Tested with Ubuntu 16.04, X.org 7.7 and Unity 7. | |
| default partial alphanumeric_keys | |
| xkb_symbols "basic" { | |
| include "us(basic)" | |
| name[Group1]= "English (US, with German umlauts and currency signs via AltGr)"; | |
| include "deng(umlauts-on-latin-keys)" | |
| include "deng(umlauts-on-german-keys)" | |
| include "deng(currency)" | |
| include "level3(ralt_switch)" | |
| }; | |
| partial alphanumeric_keys | |
| xkb_symbols "gb" { | |
| include "gb(basic)" | |
| name[Group1]= "English (UK, with German umlauts and currency signs via AltGr)"; | |
| include "deng(umlauts-on-latin-keys)" | |
| include "deng(umlauts-on-german-keys)" | |
| include "deng(currency)" | |
| include "level3(ralt_switch)" | |
| }; | |
| partial | |
| xkb_symbols "umlauts-on-latin-keys" { | |
| key <AC01> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, adiaeresis, Adiaeresis ] }; | |
| key <AD09> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, odiaeresis, Odiaeresis ] }; | |
| key <AD07> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, udiaeresis, Udiaeresis ] }; | |
| key <AC02> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, ssharp, section ] }; | |
| }; | |
| partial | |
| xkb_symbols "umlauts-on-german-keys" { | |
| key <AC11> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, adiaeresis, Adiaeresis ] }; | |
| key <AC10> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, odiaeresis, Odiaeresis ] }; | |
| key <AD11> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, udiaeresis, Udiaeresis ] }; | |
| key <AE11> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, ssharp, section ] }; | |
| }; | |
| partial | |
| xkb_symbols "currency" { | |
| key <AD03> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, EuroSign, cent ] }; | |
| key <AC09> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, sterling, NoSymbol ] }; | |
| key <AD06> { [ NoSymbol, NoSymbol, yen, NoSymbol ] }; | |
| }; |
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I can't find a script generating
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.{lst,xml}from the contents of/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/. If there is none, why?