Bug 10395

Summary:	Swiss keyboard: nodeadkeys and umlauts
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Adrian von Bidder <avbidder+xorg>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Adrian von Bidder 2007-03-24 00:58:02 UTC

I'd like a variant of a swiss nodeadkeys keyboard where the diaeresis is still dead so that it's still possible to do capital umlauts.

See <http://bugs.debian.org/194840> for details and proposed patch.

cheers
-- vbi

Comment 1 Adrian von Bidder 2007-09-02 09:10:33 UTC

I believe this bug is fixed - maybe somebody could check in the unmodified X sources instead of the (maybe modified) Debian package?

cheers
-- vbi

Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2008-12-21 14:18:59 UTC

I do not see that variant in xk-c. Is it still needed? For example, ch(deaddiaeresis)

Comment 3 Adrian von Bidder 2008-12-22 00:47:19 UTC

"Needed" is a question of judgement.  I'd still like it, since when writing german text I do need umlauts and the swiss german keyboard layout does not have capital umlauts (shift ü is è, shift ö is é etc.; I believe the swiss french layout is exactly the reverse); and as a programmer/shell person I often use tilde, backticks etc. which I do never use in their "real" function as accent characters.

OTOH there is an easy workaround by using capslock, and probably not many users would even know where to change this setting if they even knew this could be customized.

Then again, the maintenance burden of this additional variant is quite small...

happy christmas and all this
-- vbi

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-28 00:40:53 UTC

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