Please tell me how to set national keboard layout so that it lasts in the
users account scope only.
I mean one user logs in his/her account and he/she has his/her national
characters input supported. But when someone else logs in a different
account it is not so, or if someone wishes it might be completely different
national language on the another account...

I tried out to put a line
'xmodmap ~/xmodmap.my_language'
into the file:
~/.xinitrc

ant it *works* ! *But* it DOES NOT ALLOW to switch a console,
a key combination of type e.g. 'Ctrl+Alt+F3' does not work any more

(while other keys still works well in combination with Ctr+Alt, e.g.
'Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace' etc. is still OK,
just the keys F1-F12 are excluded, why?)

I have come into a possesion of the particular "modemap" file 'xmodmap.pl'
absolutely accidently, I have no knowledge of the format and the rules
applied to the content of such files
nor I have any idea how to find other their instances...

Please help!
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S

Someone wrote:
> Please tell me how to set national keboard layout so that it lasts in the
> users account scope only.

The keyboard itself doesn't change does it? If you *do* have multiple
keyboards with different layouts, just configure them both. You'll be
able to use them both at the same time (although that's not very
interesting .

Any setting regarding keyboard layout (in xorg.conf and using
/etc/conf.d/keymaps) is specific to the system you are sitting at. It
stays when you log on a different system through your system (like
through SSH or VNC).

Sven Vermeulen wrote:

> The keyboard itself doesn't change does it?

Yes, of course I meant there is only 1 *physical* keyboard
but I want its layouts to be "dynamicaly" changed and bound to the specific
accounts...

> Any setting regarding keyboard layout (in xorg.conf and using
> /etc/conf.d/keymaps) is specific to the system you are sitting at.

So, your answer is "no"? So what about 'xmodmap' command?

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S

Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> > The keyboard itself doesn't change does it?
>
> Yes, of course I meant there is only 1 *physical* keyboard
> but I want its layouts to be "dynamicaly" changed and bound to the specific
> accounts...
> > Any setting regarding keyboard layout (in xorg.conf and using
> > /etc/conf.d/keymaps) is specific to the system you are sitting at.
>
> So, your answer is "no"? So what about 'xmodmap' command?

It is possible, sure, but it's just a weird request. You can use
xmodmap to alter keybindings. You can also use "xsetkb" (the command)
to switch between layouts. In some graphical environments, you can even
select a multitude of keyboard layouts.

Sven Vermeulen wrote:

> It is possible, sure, but it's just a weird request. You can use
> xmodmap to alter keybindings.

Why "wierd"?
Imagine 2 persons of different nationalities living at the same home ;-)

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S

S <s7s.imagine@op.pl> wrote:
> Sven Vermeulen wrote:
>
>> It is possible, sure, but it's just a weird request. You can use
>> xmodmap to alter keybindings.
>
> Why "wierd"?
> Imagine 2 persons of different nationalities living at the same home

Or, like me, a person that grew up in one country and lives in another.
I still communicate with people back home, and I then need a different
keyboard layout with the extra letters.

It's a shame to say, but Windows has this right. I can switch between
locales simply by pressing LeftAlt+LeftShift, and even have different
layouts for different windows. That's *useful*.

Regards,
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*Art

Arthur Hagen wrote:
> S wrote:
>
>>Why "wierd"?
>>Imagine 2 persons of different nationalities living at the same home
>
> Or, like me, a person that grew up in one country and lives in another.
> I still communicate with people back home, and I then need a different
> keyboard layout with the extra letters.
>
> It's a shame to say, but Windows has this right. I can switch between
> locales simply by pressing LeftAlt+LeftShift, and even have different
> layouts for different windows. That's *useful*.

X has had this for years (though perhaps not the keyboard layout per
window - that's just confusing IMO).

<http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config.pdf>

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Ben M.