How to make "dead key" capslockable with kbd?

How to make "dead key" capslockable with kbd?

[Jean Revertera]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to customize my keymap file, but I have a problem: 
I'cant make these damn "dead key" correctly capslockable.

As the manpage from keymaps say:
Each  keysym  may  be prefixed by a '+' (plus sign), in which case this
keysym is treated as a "letter" and therefore  affected  by  the  "Cap-
sLock"  the same way as by "Shift"

That's what I have in my keymap file:
[...]
keycode   7 = +dead_circumflex  six        notsign          
Control_asciicircum
        alt     keycode   7 = Meta_six
[...]
With this, when I press the key with keycode 7 and capslock is "on", the 
caracter "6" is effectively displayed. On the other hand, when capslock 
is turned "off", this same key displays immediatly (i.e: is no more a 
dead key):
^B
I load the keymap file with:
loadkeys file.kmap.gz
I'm running linux-2.6.1 on an up-to-date Debian Sid.

Could someone tell me how I can make this working ?

TIA !

Re: How to make "dead key" capslockable with kbd?

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:37:21PM +0100, Jean Revertera wrote:

> I'm currently trying to customize my keymap file, but I have a problem: 
> I'cant make these damn "dead key" correctly capslockable.

Roughly speaking - what you want is impossible.
The kernel knows about 13 types of key, and among these are
KT_LATIN, KT_LETTER, KT_DEAD.
Something cannot be both KT_LETTER and KT_DEAD.

Andries


[And then, on the other hand, little is really impossible with the
Linux keyboard driver. You have 256 keymaps to play with, and can
use capslock to select a new keymap and on that map use any assignments
you like.]