Introducing an Option of Editing & Creating New Keyboard Layouts
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6 years ago 10 Under dev. review |
Thats why I feel, there may be an app(or an option under Cinnamon Settings say Keyboard Layout Editor) for Editing and Creating New Keyboard Layouts using which one can assign whatever function they want, to a particular key & more freedom must be given for opting a key(or a key combination) to act as a modifier key.
I know that, this can be done using xkb...sorts of command & editing or adding files under subdirectories of /usr/share/X11/xkb/ but still it is quite lengthy and messier operation. Believe me, I did.
This will be welcomed by users trying to emulate frogpad, half-qwerty and other such layouts available.
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You're not kidding. swapping between win7 (uk international keyboard, which I find excellent) and here I'm breaking my fingers. It's nearly as bad as using an azerty.
If you give me a workable tool to make a clone of the superior windows version (do I get expelled now?), I will do it and make it available I promise
It's really sad that most programmers (and, in fact, most unilingual people) don't understand how much dead keys and compose keys break one's flow of thought. I tried to use the System Setting's key bindings to get stuff like alt-a --> ä, but no go. Those key bindings only bind keystrokes to commands. *sigh*
My UK keyboard mapped as UK with dead keys works fine to generate portuguese charaters... except ć which should be ç ... to get around e have configured 2 distinct layouts when a simple key change in that mapping would work best. Believe there more people in similar situations.
I absolutely agree with this good idea