'@' in firefox and opera
Forum: Apps
Topic: '@' in firefox and opera
started by: hati
Posted by hati on Oct. 15 2004,10:50
Hi!Got finnish keyboard working and looks like DSL is great distro...
but when using opera or firefox can't type '@' ( it's behind AltGr ).
Is there anything to be done to get '@' and other keys behind AltGr working in those programs?
Maybe I have to move '@' sign to different location on the keyboard?
regards
Hannu
Posted by tuxpowaa on Oct. 15 2004,14:55
I've the same problem with fr keyboard.Occurs with Firefox & Thunderbird.
Posted by Buck on Oct. 17 2004,05:57
Same problem here on da keyboard...this goes for all the different ver. of firefox available in the repository.anayone?
Posted by somerville32@hotmail.com on Oct. 18 2004,01:07
I don't really understand the question 
Posted by jls legalize on Oct. 18 2004,12:52
there is no way to type the @ character under opera and firefox
Posted by jls legalize on Oct. 19 2004,19:56
p.s. apart from cut and paste of course
Posted by hawki on Oct. 21 2004,20:45
I found the same problem discussed on the opera site. The following link should get you there. I quickly tried a couple things but I couldn't tell if they worked. I don't have the right keyboard.< http://my.opera.com/forums....aracter >
I'll look a little more but I'm not sure I can tell if I'm doing any good.
good luck
Posted by hati on Oct. 29 2004,07:04
We are planning to use old PC:s as a public PC:s and the main use will be webmail so we need the finnish keyboard and '@'. I made changes to keycodes and got the AltGr + 2 to work with firefox.
Actually I replaced '"' sign with '@' and made AltGr act as a shift. I lost the other characters behind AltGr in other applications but those are not usually needed, the main thing is that users can type their mails like they are used to.
here is the procedure:
# delete mod4 which is for AltGr
xmodmap -e "clear mod4"
# add AltGr to shift keys
xmodmap -e "add shift = Mode_switch"
# change shift+2 to type '@'
xmodmap -e 'keysym 2 = 2 at at'
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DSL is great!, just what we needed
Posted by ico2 on Nov. 08 2004,14:20
loadkeys %2 letter code for country%.kmap.gz
Posted by esa on Nov. 26 2004,11:33
How do you get finnish keyboard working. If press öäå (=o: ä: ao) I only get ;']. I have tried to type boot:dsl lang=fi and DSL panel fi and fi-latin1.I use USB dsl-084.
Thanks
Esa