Keyboards - Availability in Canada

[Amanda Yilmaz]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:05:06AM -0500, Amanda Yilmaz wrote:
>> Update: I finally found a layout in X which matches ISO 9995-3 in all
>> respects, including the placement of #: it's the "Netherlands Macintosh"
>> layout. So choose that one if you want the 9995-3 layout (I just made it
>> the default on my laptop).
>>
>> My apologies to everyone for cheerfully beating this topic to death, but
>> I really do get into this stuff. :-D
> 
> Hmm, I tried picking that layout in X, and it bahaves exactly like the
> US layout.  I can't get it to do anything else (right alt is not behaving
> as altgr).  How odd.  Any idea what the 3rd level shift key is?

The 3rd-level shift key is usually right Alt by default...

Which distro are you using, and which desktop environment (if any)? And
have you explicitly altered xorg.conf or made any special customizations
via xmodmap?

On the Ubuntu GNOME desktop, you can bring up the Keyboard Preferences
dialog by choosing System > Preferences > Keyboard. On the "Layouts"
page there's a button called "Layout Options". If you press this, a
Layout Options dialog pops up which allows you to choose all sorts of
options regarding key placement; any option shown in bold has been
changed from the default setting. I'd especially look under "Alt/Win key
behaviour" and "Key to choose 3rd level"; you may need to set the "Key
to choose 3rd level" explicitly.

This dialog is of course a front end to XKB (the X Keyboard Extension),
which provides the "setxkbmap" command for changing the keyboard layout
dynamically, no matter what was specified in xorg.conf. In fact, my
xorg.conf doesn't specify a default layout (which probably means it
reverts to "us"); certainly it's something else (shell script?
gnome-settings-daemon?) changing the layout to layout "nl", variant
"mac" after I log into my user account. If you're not using GNOME or
KDE, maybe you will need to call setxkbmap explicitly as well, to
override whatever your distro is doing behind the scenes?

Amanda
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