Open FrauH0lle opened 2 years ago
Oh, I thought I already commented on this. Anyway
If you change your keyboard layout in KDE, does the output of xmodmap -pke
also change?
If you change your keyboard layout in KDE, does the output of xmodmap -pke also change?
It does, below is the diff between a German layout and an English USA layout.
But I think I was not really clear. When I compared the output of key-mapper-control --symbol-names
, I got
And thus, without xmodmap
something like Control_L + a
as found in the documentation will simply not work.
That is why I think the documentation should mention that xmodmap
is recommended to be installed.
*I meant to say in Wayland
That is why I think the documentation should mention that xmodmap is recommended to be installed.
I aggree that it should be mentioned
Off topic, but is that gentoo ebuild aviable anywhere? I have tried to search for a gentoo build and failed.
Added optdepends=('xorg-xmodmap: symbol names matching the keyboard layout')
to the AUR packages
I just created a package for Gentoo and realized that it is better if xmodmap is also present on the system.
Even though it is not strictly necessary, I saw that without it, a lot of keys are not working "like that", e.g. simply "a".
I guess,
key(KEY_A)
would need to be used. After I addedxmodmap
, everything works as expected. I think this should be be mentioned in the install instructions.