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qleak · Post by **qleak** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:18 pm

I recently moved to the UK from the US. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to type the UK pound sign "L"
in a US keyboard.

Thanks

-Q

wynn · Post by **wynn** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:40 pm

Run

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xmodmap -pke | grep sterling

You (might|will) get an entry like

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keycode  19 =0 parenright braceright degree braceright degree

with "sterling" where "braceright" or "degree" is in the example above.

If it is in the "braceright" position, then "AltGr + <the character after the =>" will give it, if it is in the "degree" position, it will be "Shift + AltGr + <the character after the =>"

If this doesn't work, post the output of

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xmodmap -pke | grep sterling

qleak · Post by **qleak** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:25 pm

xmodmap -pke | grep sterling

has no results

-Q

qleak · Post by **qleak** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:40 pm

even worse after a bit of playing

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 xmodmap -e 'keycode 13 = 4 sterling'

yeilds nothing when shifting 4

hmm any hints ?

wynn · Post by **wynn** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:03 am

AFAIK the only way to get your changes noticed is to

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xmodmap -pke >~/.Xmodmap

edit the .Xmodmap in your home directory and restart X.

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (which I believe is run by all flavours of desktop/window manager) has this to say

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usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
...
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

There is also

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xinitdir=/etc/X11
sysmodmap=$xinitdir/Xmodmap

which doesn't exist. I imagine that if you wanted everybody to have sterling on their keyboard, you'd create /etc/X11/Xmodmap instead of ~/.Xmodmap.