I'm spent hours trying to get this to work, and I have no idea, what I'm doing wrong. I must admit, that I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, so I might be missing something obvious.
I've read several questions and answers in here, regarding this same thing, but none of the answers help me.
I'm trying to setup a custom keyboard layout, since I'm from Denmark, and we have three ridiculus letters (Æ, ø and å), that I need to write every now and again.
The thing that I hoped that I could get some help with, is that when I go to this folder:
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
And edit the 'us'-file, where I change this:
key <AE05> { [ 5, percent ] };
to this:
key <AE05> { [ J, percent ] };
then I can still not get a change in the layout. I'm just doing this to try to get this fricking layout to do something (so that it would write 'J', whenever i pressed '5' on the keyboard). Ideally, I would like to map
- æ to ALTGR+a
- ø to ALTGR+s and
- å to ALTGR+d
But I figured, that if I couldn't even change the '5' to a 'J', then I should maybe get that to work first.
And yes... I and using the right version of the english keyboard - called 'English (US, international with dead keys)'. I've also tried modifying the regular english keyboard (called 'English (US)'), but with just as much luck.
Here's the layout code, from the 'us'-file:
partial alphanumeric_keys
73 xkb_symbols "intl" {
74
75 name[Group1]= "English (US, international with dead keys)";
76
77 include "us(basic)"
78
79 key <TLDE> { [dead_grave, dead_tilde, grave, asciitilde ] };
80 key <AE01> { [ 1, exclam, exclamdown, onesuperior ] };
81 key <AE02> { [ 2, at, twosuperior, dead_doubleacute ] };
82 key <AE03> { [ 3, numbersign, threesuperior, dead_macron ] };
83 key <AE04> { [ 4, dollar, currency, sterling ] };
84 key <AE05> { [ J, percent, EuroSign, dead_cedilla ] };
85 key <AE06> { [ 6, dead_circumflex, onequarter, asciicircum ] };
86 key <AE07> { [ 7, ampersand, onehalf, dead_horn ] };
87 key <AE08> { [ 8, asterisk, threequarters, dead_ogonek ] };
88 key <AE09> { [ 9, parenleft, leftsinglequotemark, dead_breve ] };
89 key <AE10> { [ 0, parenright, rightsinglequotemark, dead_abovering ] };
90 key <AE11> { [ minus, underscore, yen, dead_belowdot ] };
91 key <AE12> { [ equal, plus, multiply, division ] };
92
93 key <AD01> { [ q, Q, adiaeresis, Adiaeresis ] };
94 key <AD02> { [ w, W, aring, Aring ] };
95 key <AD03> { [ e, E, eacute, Eacute ] };
96 key <AD04> { [ r, R, registered, registered ] };
97 key <AD05> { [ t, T, thorn, THORN ] };
98 key <AD06> { [ y, Y, udiaeresis, Udiaeresis ] };
99 key <AD07> { [ u, U, uacute, Uacute ] };
100 key <AD08> { [ i, I, iacute, Iacute ] };
101 key <AD09> { [ o, O, oacute, Oacute ] };
102 key <AD10> { [ p, P, odiaeresis, Odiaeresis ] };
103 key <AD11> { [ bracketleft, braceleft, guillemotleft, leftdoublequotemark ] };
104 key <AD12> { [bracketright, braceright, guillemotright, rightdoublequotemark ] };
105
106 key <AC01> { [ a, A, aacute, Aacute ] };
107 key <AC02> { [ s, S, ssharp, section ] };
108 key <AC03> { [ d, D, eth, ETH ] };
109 key <AC04> { [ f, F, f, F ] };
110 key <AC05> { [ g, G, g, G ] };
111 key <AC06> { [ h, H, h, H ] };
112 key <AC07> { [ j, J, j, J ] };
113 key <AC08> { [ k, K, oe, OE ] };
114
115 key <AC09> { [ l, L, oslash, Ooblique ] };
116 key <AC10> { [ semicolon, colon, paragraph, degree ] };
117 key <AC11> { [dead_acute, dead_diaeresis, apostrophe, quotedbl ] };
118
119 key <AB01> { [ z, Z, ae, AE ] };
120 key <AB02> { [ x, X, x, X ] };
121 key <AB03> { [ c, C, copyright, cent ] };
122 key <AB04> { [ v, V, v, V ] };
123 key <AB05> { [ b, B, b, B ] };
124 key <AB06> { [ n, N, ntilde, Ntilde ] };
125 key <AB07> { [ m, M, mu, mu ] };
126 key <AB08> { [ comma, less, ccedilla, Ccedilla ] };
127 key <AB09> { [ period, greater, dead_abovedot, dead_caron ] };
128 key <AB10> { [ slash, question, questiondown, dead_hook ] };
129 key <BKSL> { [ backslash, bar, notsign, brokenbar ] };
130
131 key <LSGT> { [ backslash, bar, backslash, bar ] };
132
133 include "level3(ralt_switch)"
134 };
