Wildly OT: pop-up virtual keyboard for Mac or Linux?

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 6:06:03 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> The problem with xkbmap is that I don't know how to specify a new
> keyboard map as a regular user. I know how to do that with .Xmodmap.

Xmodmap is neat... but obsolete
Ive noticed hanging and misbehavior and there are all sorts of bugs eg

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/998310
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550533

all of which amount to "Dont use Xmodmap; use Xkb"

Yeah as I said Xmodmap is much simpler than xkb but the reality is that
former is obsolete and increasingly unsupported.


> Rustom Mody wrote:
> 
> > Can someone try out:
> >
> > $ setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:ralt_rshift_toggle"
> 
> I tried it.
> 
> > Earlier that used to work as a *toggle* ie a RAlt-RShift chord would
> > go to gr(eek) and another would come back to 'us'.
> 
> I noticed, thanks very much.

:-)

> Luckily I managed to undo the damage without logging out.
> 
> The reason is the Greek keyboard doesn't have an RAlt. Solution:
> 
>    $ setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:lalt_rshift_toggle"

Thanks for trying (and explaining). So a bit wiser now I see that

$ setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:lalt_lshift_toggle,grp_led:caps"
toggles with lalt-lshift and shows indicator on caps-led

$ setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:lalt_lshift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
toggles with lalt-lshift and shows indicator on scroll-led