Re: [STUMP] Changing keyboard layout... forth and back

[eugen]

Hi Fabrice,

Looks almost like the French layout has a different mapping for your  
prefix key than the English layout. Did you try to use xev to figure  
out whether that's the case?

If it is indeed different, then we probably found the problem and I  
can think of 2 solutions off the top of my head:

* When switching to French layout, also change your prefix (and change  
it back when switching to English, of course) to the new mapping of  
that key.
* Create your own  French X key map, derived from 'fr'.

Cheers
Eugen

P.S. Let me know if it works, I'll setup a multi-language stump pretty  
soon, too, and might run into the same thing.

Zitat von Fabrice Niessen <address@hidden>:
> Hello,
>
> As I often have to switch between English and French when
> writing, I'd like my QWERTY (GB) keyboard to follow...
>
> My wish would be to be able to switch back and forth between
> French and British keyboard layout using the "Caps Lock" key,
> but I did not manage to use its correct code in the kbd function
> call (is it "ISO_Next_Group"?).
>
> OK, that's the next step, the first being able to make the
> desired switch between the 2 keyboard layouts. Here is what I
> wrote in my `.stumpwmrc' file to (try to) do so:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define-stumpwm-command "set-keyboard-gb" ()
>   (run-shell-command "exec setxkbmap gb")
>   (define-key *root-map* (kbd "C-i") "set-keyboard-fr"))
>
> (define-stumpwm-command "set-keyboard-fr" ()
>   (run-shell-command "exec setxkbmap fr")
>   (define-key *root-map* (kbd "C-i") "set-keyboard-gb"))
>
> (run-commands "set-keyboard-gb")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> By default, it is well in British English. If I press my
> prefix-key ("Super" or "Windows" key) followed by `C-i', I am in
> French layout. Good... Except my prefix-key becomes disabled...
> I've lost everything. I can't control anything anymore!!  I need
> to kill my X server and come back to a new session.
>
> Any solution?
>
> Best regards,
>   Fabrice Niessen
>
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