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| | mwitkow.me
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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.
| | neilzone.co.uk
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| | Neil Brown's personal blog.
| | cpbotha.net
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| | I've lost at least 5 hours of my life to the frikking euro key on my Microsoft Natural (old-style) keyboard. It seems that Gnome 2.10 on Ubuntu 5.04, otherwise a great combination, enjoys torturing its Dvorak keyboard layout users with the euro-symbol on the "5" key. It simply doesn't work, no matter what you try. After sacrificing the prerequisite 5 hours to the Linux gods of Ultimate Non-Usability, I came up with the following solution. Make the following change to your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak f...
| | tim.siosm.fr
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| I recently had to setup cgit with nginx on Arch Linux for https://siosm.fr/git and it took me quite some time as I was not familiar with cgi, fcgi, fcgiwrap, spawn-fcgi and had no idea how they worked together. 2012-11-11 update: Add systemd support