On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 7:23 PM tempforever <dev1@???> wrote:
>
>

> >>>>    $ nano /etc/default/keyboard
> >>>>      XKBMODEL="pc105"
> >>>>      XKBLAYOUT="us"
> >>>>      XKBVARIANT=""
> >>>>      XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt"
> >>>>      BACKSPACE="guess"

> >>>>
> >>>>

> >>>>    $ xmodmap -pke | grep Alt
> >>>>      keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L

> >>>>

> >>>>    but no Alt_R or ralt. I could use right Windows but do not see it
> >>>>    in the map either.

> >>>>
> >>>> When pressing AltGr on my (not Dell) keyboard, xev returns:
> >>>>

> >>>> ~~~
> >>>> KeyRelease event, serial 48, synthetic NO, window 0x2800001,
> >>>>     root 0x528, subw 0x2800002, time 37381333, (41,47), root:(792,492),
> >>>>     state 0x90, keycode 108 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen
> >>>> YES, XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 92
> >>>>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> >>>>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> >>>> ~~~

> >>>>
> >>>> So... ISO_Level3_Shift also seems to be synonymous with AltGr...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> That seems to be consistent with what I find on my keyboard also.
>
> /etc/default/keyboard:
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT=""
> XKBOPTIONS=""
> BACKSPACE="guess"
>
> $ xmodmap -pke | grep Alt
> keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L
> keycode 108 = Alt_R Meta_R ISO_Level3_Shift NoSymbol ISO_Level3_Shift
> keycode 204 = NoSymbol Alt_L NoSymbol Alt_L NoSymbol Alt_L
>
>

I have a problem - - - - I'm multi-lingual.
Started my computing on a Mac+ some almost 40 years ago and there it
was easy option 'u' was for umlaut, option 'c' was for cedilla - - -
more options - - (LOL) most of those are still in memory.
Sadly - - - well at least I haven't found anything that easy!!! - - -
it don't work like that in *nix universe - - - or maybe it does and I
just don't know about it.

Know about using different keyboards but I find the qwertz for one to
be a real pain in the posterior when I'm typing anything more than
even a few words because there are just enough letters in different
locations that touch typing is 'out the window' and I'm fairly good at
that typing stuff.

Are there any memorizable options for using special characters from a
'105 key' keyboard?

TIA