[sclug] The Euro Sign (Solved (Well almost :-) )

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

Having continued to Dig around I found the solution.  Isn't that always
the way <sigh>. 

Here is the solution.  :-
# xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch"
# xmodmap -e "keysym 4 = 4 dollar EuroSign"
# xmodmap -e "keysym 3 = 3 numbersign sterling"

So now the right hand Alt and 3 gives the '?' (Pound sterling)
and Right Alt 4 gives me the '?' Euro Symbol.

So where is it best to store that script?

The only thing I've lost now is variable pitch fonts in Evolution. 
Though I might view that as a benefit.  :-)

Tom.


On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 10:38, Tom Dawes-Gamble wrote:
> Hi,
> Since I started working with Computers before the days of PCs and the
> ISO-8859 thing I learnt on US Keyboards.  So thats what I use even
> today.  (unfortunately my Laptop has a UK keyboard but I don't use the
> UK setting so things are still in the right place. :-)
> 
> On Friday I decided that it was about time I found out how to get the ?
> (Stirling) and ? (EuroSign) working from a US keyboard. 
> 
> With Windows it was quite straight forward.  <Alt>156 and <Alt>0218 give
> me the Stirling and EuroSign.  
> 
> Now with Linux what a palava and I still don't have it working
> properly.  Selecting an iso8859-15 character set gets you the symbols
> though I had to switch it in several applications.
> The one thing I can't do is get them from the Keyboard in the way I
> want.
> 
> # xmodmap -e "keysym 3 = 3 sterling"
> # xmodmap -e "keysym 4 = 4 EuroSign"
> #
> 
> Allows shift 3 and shift 4 to give the characters but of course I loose
> '#' '$'
> 
> If I switch to a danish keyboard then <alt_right>e gives me a EuroSign. 
> But the rest of the keyboard is toast.
> 
> So what I really want to do is something like.
> 
> # xmodmap -e "keysym 3 = 3 numbersign sterling"
> # xmodmap -e "keysym 4 = 4 dollar EuroSign"
> #
> 
> or maybe
> 
> # xmodmap -e "keysym l = l L sterling"
> # xmodmap -e "keysym e = e E EuroSign"
> #
> 
> With the intention that <alt> and the key gives me the required symbol.
> 
> But it seems to have no effect.
> 
> There seems to be some documentation on getting "ALT_Gr" working but
> it's for previous versions XF86  I'm use version 4 from Red Hat 9.0  and
> I'm not that familiar with X to know how all this hangs together.
> 
> Does anyone here know how to get this stuff to work?
> 
> Tom.
> 
> 
> 
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