Thread: [ANNOUNCE] NOKIA N900 Awesome Hardware Keyboard Layout for Programmers
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2012-12-29 , 00:04
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
...Modifying the xkb behavior to allow ctrl+key combos would require you to also modify the file where the groups are defined. Then you can test if Micro-B still overrides... The N900 I'm on with at the moment is about to lose battery power, so I'm going to edit this post from another one as soon as I've re-found where the keygroup behaviors are defined.
Since a post was made after mine, I decided to add this as a new post instead of editing previous:

The various key level groupings are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/types/

There's many files in there, and they're all apparently read by xkb when looking for the key map 'type'. So if you want to experiment with a Ctrl+[key] key map type, you can just make your own test file in there... I THINK. There's more to how xkb does that then just those files, but it's been years since I've looked around there in-depth.
 

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