From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rupert Swarbrick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dvorak layout except when modifier key is pressed Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:52:17 -0600 Message-ID: References: <86prwu1zg1.fsf@eder.homelinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198636843 21247 80.91.229.12 (26 Dec 2007 02:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 26 03:40:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J7MCT-0003lu-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7MC8-0006u4-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:52:17 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Original-Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-PXL6U1v6l98JLoXvBZBTpYDwyG+q1xVAiQAXI2/BbutfBgx8HQNpScUrQuHkYtuBAn4Bm/kDPUa2utr!IdB47qRB0EahtGwAwYNPmpAJA+3C2tx5zKoxGJS8DdOkREz/79i/Q43dhZ47poMEarX7X+M89w== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154912 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50336 Archived-At: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:31:21 -0600, B. T. Raven wrote: > Andreas Eder wrote: >> Have a look at xmodmap. You can tweak your keyboard layout to whatever >> you like with it. >> >> 'Andreas > > Thanks, Andreas. I recently installed Fedora 8 but it has only the basic > Linux functionality. I think there is something called "Developer Spin" > (another DVD) that I need to get the Emacs files. > > > Ed I think it's almost guaranteed that you have xmodmap - I believe it's a core X11 app*. Try xmodmap on the command line? Then man xmodmap (together with some heavy googling: it's a bit hard I found). Good luck - and I for one would be very interested to know whether you have any success, Rupert * I'm on debian, but I notice for example that gdm indirectly depends on the package containing it.