Re: X keyboard settings (was keyboard macro)

[Joost Kremers]

Rustom Mody wrote:
> 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.

Most desktop environments and window managers provide some graphical
front end to set up xkb options. Makes the whole thing a point-and-click
fest. :-)

> Can setxkbmap replace xmodmap?

AFAIK the two do basically the same thing, the difference being that
xmodmap reads a script while setxkbmap takes command line arguments.


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