Slovenci ki živimo v Italiji ponavadi uporabljamo italijanske tipkovnice. Seveda pa smo v zadregi kadar hočemo kaj napisati po slovensko. V primeru da uporabljamo Linux ni velikih težav dodati mankajoče črke. V primeru da uporabljamo distribucijo Debian Lenny in delamo v okolju X11 je dovolj da popravimo datoteko /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/it.
V mojem primeru sem spremenil vlogo tipke "večji/manjši od" (spodaj na levi). V primeru da jo pritisnem skupaj z AltGr bo naslednja črka dobila strešico. Tako da dobim črko "č" moram pritisniti AltGr+< in nato tipko c. To je zame kar v redu ker le redko (na žalost) pišem po slovensko. S to menjavo nismo izgubili nobene črke ker v originalu nam AltGr+< da isti simbol kot AltGr+z.
Tukaj je vsebina datoteke /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/it na mojem računalniku:
// $XKeyboardConfig: xkeyboard-config/symbols/it,v 1.14 2008-04-12 00:24:52 svu Exp $
// based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/it' file
// 17 May 2003 Modified by Sebastiano Vigna (vigna@dsi.unimi.it)
//
// $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/it,v 1.4 2003/04/19 12:22:12 pascal Exp $
partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
include "latin(type4)"
name[Group1]="Italy";
key { [ backslash, bar, notsign, brokenbar ] };
key { [ 2, quotedbl, twosuperior, dead_doubleacute ] };
key { [ 3, sterling,threesuperior, dead_tilde ] };
key { [ 4, dollar, onequarter, oneeighth ] };
key { [ 0, equal, braceright, dead_ogonek ] };
key { [apostrophe, question, grave, questiondown ] };
key { [ igrave, asciicircum, asciitilde, dead_circumflex ] };
key { [ egrave, eacute, bracketleft, braceleft ] };
key { [ plus, asterisk, bracketright, braceright ] };
key { [ ograve, ccedilla, at, dead_cedilla ] };
key { [ agrave, degree, numbersign, dead_abovering ] };
key { [ n, N, ntilde, Ntilde ] };
key { [ comma, semicolon, dead_acute, multiply ] };
key { [ period, colon,periodcentered, dead_diaeresis ] };
key { [ minus, underscore, dead_macron, division ] };
key { [ ugrave, section, dead_grave, dead_breve ] };
key { [ less, greater, dead_caron, caron] };
include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "nodeadkeys" {
// Modifies the basic italian layout to eliminate all dead keys
include "it(basic)"
name[Group1]="Italy - Eliminate dead keys";
key { [ 2, quotedbl, twosuperior, doubleacute ] };
key { [ 3, sterling,threesuperior, asciitilde ] };
key { [ 0, equal, braceright, ogonek ] };
key { [ igrave, asciicircum, asciitilde, asciicircum ] };
key { [ ograve, ccedilla, at, cedilla ] };
key { [ agrave, degree, numbersign, degree ] };
key { [ comma, semicolon, acute, multiply ] };
key { [ period, colon,periodcentered, diaeresis ] };
key { [ minus, underscore, macron, division ] };
key { [ ugrave, section, grave, breve ] };
};
// Copied from macintosh_vndr/it
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "mac" {
name[Group1]= "Italy - Macintosh";
// Alphanumeric section
key { [ less, greater ] };
key { [ at, numbersign, periodcentered ] };
key { [ ampersand, 1, guillemotleft,guillemotright ] };
key { [ quotedbl, 2 ] };
key { [ apostrophe, 3 ] };
key { [ parenleft, 4, braceleft, bracketleft ] };
key { [ ccedilla, 5, Ccedilla, Iacute ] };
key { [ egrave, 6, paragraph, periodcentered] };
key { [ parenright, 7, braceright, bracketright ] };
key { [ sterling, 8, infinity ] };
key { [ agrave, 9, acute, Ocircumflex ] };
key { [ eacute, 0, grave, Oacute ] };
key { [ minus, underscore ] };
key { [ equal, plus, notequal, plusminus ] };
key { [ q, Q ] };
key { [ z, Z ] };
key { [ e, E, EuroSign ] };
key { [ r, R, registered ] };
key { [ t, T ] };
key { [ y, Y, Uacute, ydiaeresis ] };
key { [ u, U ] };
key { [ i, I, icircumflex, idiaeresis ] };
key { [ o, O ] };
key { [ p, P ] };
key { [ igrave, asciicircum ] };
key { [ dollar, asterisk ] };
key { [ section, degree, at, numbersign ] };
key { [ a, A, aring, Aring ] };
key { [ s, S, ssharp ] };
key { [ d, D ] };
key { [ f, F ] };
key { [ g, G ] };
key { [ h, H, Igrave, Icircumflex ] };
key { [ j, J, Idiaeresis, Iacute ] };
key { [ k, K, Egrave, Ediaeresis ] };
key { [ l, L, ssharp, bar ] };
key { [ m, M, mu, Oacute ] };
key { [ ugrave, percent, ae, AE ] };
key { [ w, W ] };
key { [ x, X ] };
key { [ c, C, copyright, copyright ] };
key { [ v, V ] };
key { [ b, B ] };
key { [ n, N, dead_tilde ] };
key { [ comma, question, questiondown ] };
key { [ semicolon, period ] };
key { [ colon, slash, bar, backslash ] };
key { [ ograve, exclam, exclamdown ] };
// End alphanumeric section
include "kpdl(dot)"
include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};
// Used by Georgian people in Italy,
// contributed by Vladimer Sichinava
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "geo" {
include "it"
include "ge(basic)"
name[Group1]= "Italy - Georgian";
key { [ backslash, bar, notsign, brokenbar ] };
key { [ 1, exclam, onesuperior ] };
key { [ 2, quotedbl, twosuperior, dead_doubleacute ] };
key { [ 3, sterling, threesuperior, dead_tilde ] };
key { [ 4, dollar, onequarter, oneeighth ] };
key { [ 5, percent, onehalf ] };
key { [ 6, ampersand ] };
key { [ 7, slash, braceleft ] };
key { [ 8, parenleft, bracketleft ] };
key { [ 9, parenright ] };
key { [ 0, equal, braceright, dead_ogonek ] };
key { [apostrophe, question, grave, questiondown ] };
key { [ igrave, asciicircum, asciitilde, dead_circumflex ] };
key { [0x010010d4, E, EuroSign ] };
key { [ egrave, eacute, bracketleft, braceleft ] };
key { [ plus, asterisk, bracketright, braceright ] };
key { [ ograve, ccedilla, at, dead_cedilla ] };
key { [ agrave, degree, numbersign, degree ] };
key { [ ugrave, section, dead_grave, dead_breve ] };
key { [ less, greater ] };
key { [ comma, semicolon ] };
key { [ period, colon ] };
key { [ minus, underscore ] };
};
// OLPC Section
xkb_symbols "olpc" {
include "basic"
key { [ igrave, asciicircum, asciitilde, dead_tilde ] };
key { [ ugrave, section, Egrave, dead_breve ] };
key { [ less, greater, guillemotleft, guillemotright ] };
};
V primeru da je potrebno hitreje tipkati in bi hoteli dobiti črko č s kombinacijo AltGr+c (in pa Č če držimo še Shift) lahko zamenjamo vrstico:
key { [ c, C, copyright, copyright ] };
v:
key { [ c, C, ccaron, Ccaron ] };
podobno za druge črke s strešico.