Re: X keyboard settings (was keyboard macro)

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 21, 2013 11:47:30 PM UTC+5:30, Yuri Khan wrote:
>> probably, the command “setxkbmap -layout "us,in" -variant ",deva"
>> -options "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps"” will help a lot.
>
> Hey its great to hear of this!
> Ive been trying to put together something for the new gnu apl that has just 
> been released.
> The author gives an xmodmap that works for apl but makes emacs close to 
> unusable -- Alt-x becomes an Apl char.  However all my attempts at wrapping 
> my head round xmodmap have failed so far.
> Can setxkbmap replace xmodmap?

As far as I understand, xmodmap and setxkbmap are equivalent in power.
They both are ways to feed your settings to the XKB extension, just
use different input formats.