2.6.0-test4 and Xfree 4.3 and japanese 106 keyboard

2.6.0-test4 and Xfree 4.3 and japanese 106 keyboard

[Clemens Schwaighofer]

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Hi,

since in the 2.6 tree the keyboard layout changed there are several
(well known and discussed) issues with the japanese keyboard layout and
the Yen/bar(pipe) key. I can ship around that problem in the shell with
'setkeycodes 0x6a 124', but in Xfree the xmodmap doesn't take this over
of course. The whole box was compiled against a 2.4.20-ck6.

So my question is: do I have to recompiled XFree against the 2.6
sources, or is there any XFree keymap changes I can do to get the
Yen/bar key back?
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Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration
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Re: 2.6.0-test4 and Xfree 4.3 and japanese 106 keyboard

[Clemens Schwaighofer]

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Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since in the 2.6 tree the keyboard layout changed there are several
> (well known and discussed) issues with the japanese keyboard layout and
> the Yen/bar(pipe) key. I can ship around that problem in the shell with
> 'setkeycodes 0x6a 124', but in Xfree the xmodmap doesn't take this over
> of course. The whole box was compiled against a 2.4.20-ck6.
>
> So my question is: do I have to recompiled XFree against the 2.6
> sources, or is there any XFree keymap changes I can do to get the
> Yen/bar key back?

well, just for the archives, if anybody else needs that:

in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 change the <AE13> = 133; to <AE13>
= 245; and either run xmodmap -e 'keycodes 245 = 0x5c 0x7c' or add the
xmodmap in the .xinitrc

I don't have the keycode for the "close japanese bracket and long
hyphen", so it is just a fix/hack, so you can youse tha backslash / bar
key on a jp106 (japanese keyboard) with 2.6.0-test kernels

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Clemens Schwaighofer - IT Engineer & System Administration
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Tequila Japan, 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN
Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703            Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343
http://www.tequila.jp
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