Re: Alt + CHTN for arrow key movement, XKB?

Ivan Pascal <pascal <at> info.tsu.ru> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the delay.  This task appeared more complex than I thought.
> 
> ...
> 
> Since it leads to the same level and the same Redirect action the combination
> Shift+Alt-C emulates the same <UP> key with Shift but without Alt.
> 

Ok it worked :) this is amazing, I rarely have to move my hands off the
keyboard.  Navigation everywhere is perfect.

BUT I still have a couple of problems.

- In Gnome (I'm running 2.6 on xfree-4.3.99.902-r2) hitting the "c" key by
itself is somehow interpreted as ALT+C. So when I'm filling a text box in a
dialog box, when I hit "c" the dialog box calls up the Cancel button since it
has "C" underlined. The same for "T" , "H", and "N". If there is a toolbar
accelerator for them, ther are called just by pressing the key. Not sure if
there is something I can do here.... could be a gnome issue?

- Holding down the ALT+C or one of the keys does not repeat, if I keep holding
it , it just produces one event. How do I make it repeat?

I'm attaching the two files I modified from my Gentoo notebook:
/etc/X11/xkb/types/basic
default xkb_types "basic" {
 
    // Fairly standard definitions for
    // the four required key types
 
    virtual_modifiers NumLock, Alt;
 
    type "ONE_LEVEL" {
        modifiers = None;
        map[None] = Level1;
        level_name[Level1]= "Any";
    };
 
    type "TWO_LEVEL" {
        modifiers = Shift;
        map[Shift] = Level2;
        level_name[Level1] = "Base";
        level_name[Level2] = "Shift";
    };
 
    type "ALPHABETIC" {
        modifiers = Shift+Lock;
        map[Shift] = Level2;
        map[Lock] = Level2;
        level_name[Level1] = "Base";
        level_name[Level2] = "Caps";
    };
 
        type "ALT_NAV" {
                modifiers       = Shift+Alt;
                map[Shift]      = level2;
                map[Alt]        = level3;
                map[Alt+Shift] = level3;
                level_name[Level1] = "Base";
                level_name[Level2] = "Caps";
                level_name[Level3] = "Arrows";
        };
         
    type "KEYPAD" {
        modifiers = Shift+NumLock;
        map[None] = Level1;
        map[Shift] = Level2;
        map[NumLock] = Level2;
        map[Shift+NumLock] = Level1;
        level_name[Level1] = "Base";
        level_name[Level2] = "Number";
    };
};



And the modified section in my dvorak file from 
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak

 key <AD07> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                        [           g,  G, PageUp       ],
        actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<PGUP>,
clearmods=Alt)] };
    key <AD08> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                         [          c,  C, Up           ],
        actions[Group1]=[ NoAction(), NoAction(),  RedirectKey(key=<UP>,
clearmods=Alt) ]       };
    key <AD09> { [          r,  R               ]       };
    key <AD10> { [          l,  L               ]       };
    key <AD11> { [      slash,  question        ]       };
    key <AD12> { [      equal,  plus            ]       };
 
    key <AC01> { [          a,  A               ]       };
    key <AC02> { [          o,  O               ]       };
    key <AC03> { [          e,  E               ]       };
    key <AC04> { [          u,  U               ]       };
    key <AC05> { [          i,  I               ]   };
    key <AC06> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                        [           d,  D, Home ],
                actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<HOME>,
clearmods=Alt)] };
    key <AC07> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                         [          h,  H, Left         ],
        actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<LEFT>,
clearmods=Alt)]        };
    key <AC08> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                         [          t,  T, Down         ],
        actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<DOWN>,
clearmods=Alt)]        };
    key <AC09> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                        [           n,  N, Right        ],
                actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<RGHT>,
clearmods=Alt)] };
    key <AC10> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                        [           s,  S, End          ],
        actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<END>,
clearmods=Alt)] };
    key <AC11> { [      minus,  underscore ] };
    key <AB01> { [      semicolon,      colon, dead_ogonek, dead_doubleacute ] };
    key <AB02> { [          q,  Q               ]       };
    key <AB03> { [          j,  J               ]       };
    key <AB04> { [          k,  K               ]       };
    key <AB05> { [          x,  X               ]       };
    key <AB06> { [          b,  B               ]       };
    key <AB07> {
        type="ALT_NAV",
                        [           m,  M, PageDown             ],
        actions[Group1]=[NoAction(), NoAction(), RedirectKey(key=<PGDN>,
clearmods=Alt)] };


Thanks
Ahmad