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Linux: How to make your own keyboard layout | Florin Lipan
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German umlauts on a US keyboard
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| | As someone learning German, I wanted to avoid learning a new keyboard layout (German QWERTZ) as well as the language. Thus in this blog post, I go into the details of how to get German umlauts on a US keyboard layout across Linux, MacOS and Windows. A little background Like most Polish computer users, I grew up with the, awkwardly named, Polish (programmers) layout. It is effectively a English (US) with the Alt+Gr (a.
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The story with keyboard switching shortcuts
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| | And so one day, I set to build a lightweight desktop environment around lxde. After some customizations, the thing that bugged me was that I could not set the keyboard layout change shortcut to the Win + Space shortcut that I have grown to like. What's not to like about it.
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Janik von Rotz - Map Keyboard Key
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| | I am using a "Keychron K3 Pro" keyboard. Right of the space key there is a "Super" key to run the launcher (similar to windows key). Therefore the "Alt Right" key is missing and this makes creating umlauts more difficult. I am using the "Enlgish (int, with AltGr dead keys)" keyboard layout and pressing Alt Right+Shift Right+" gives me the ยจ. Remapping a key in linux is very easy.
| | who-t.blogspot.com
Who-T: PSA: For Xorg GNOME sessions, use the xf86-input-wacom driver for your tablets
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| TLDR: see the title of this blog post, it's really that trivial. Now that Godot Wayland has been coming for ages and all new develo...