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| author | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2021-04-20 17:33:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2021-04-20 17:33:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9a8191f74978b09663814d0d90e314e580c8c55 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bb33fc9c44833fe2e50f95828f771677a276d2b | |
| parent | 5eb2362d13a32c02b792fac777890265a6625f10 (diff) | |
Better XKB instructions
| -rw-r--r-- | editors/README.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/editors/README.txt b/editors/README.txt index 772816a9..092e193d 100644 --- a/editors/README.txt +++ b/editors/README.txt @@ -3,8 +3,14 @@ performed with a backslash prefix by default, using the layout illustrated at the top of the file ./bqn . To type an actual backslash, hit the backslash key twice. -The file bqn is for configuring XKB on Linux. I haven't tried this but -others have it working. See: +The file bqn is for configuring XKB on Linux. To use, copy it +to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/, then run +$ setxkbmap -layout us,bqn -option grp:switch +replacing "us" with your ordinary keyboard layout. "switch" indicates +the right alt key and can be replaced with "lswitch" for left alt or +other codes. The setting will go away on shutdown so you will probably +want to configure it to run every time you start up. The way to do this +depends on your desktop environment. For further discussion, see: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_keyboard_extension - https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Typing_glyphs_on_Linux |