System 6 keyboard

I can remember before System 7. The iPad puts me in mind of the days before MultiFinder was incorporated into the operating system. Am I too old for these Forums?
I'm looking for a picture of the original System 6 keyboard layout (the one that was renamed "US - System 6" when the default layout changed back around 1990, '91?). I don't need the actual keyboard, though that would be fun. Just a picture or listing of the option and shift-option character assignments. Some but not all of it is the same as the current "US" (not Extended, not International or anything else); it's the "but not all" characters that I'm interested in. For example, what was the character than now comes through as the forbidden 0094 or C294? I know the Mac-Roman character set used that whole 0080-009F range, but I'm ### if I can figure out which characters they were.
Can someone point me in the right direction?

I know that Alan Wood site; I've got two different pages bookmarked already. Never occurred to me to look there, though. Unfortunately neither he nor wikipedia comes through with the specific information I need: not the character encoding-- my text editor can do that-- but the key mapping.
I've been looking at a legacy font that makes full use of the Option characters. With current key assignments, the plain option parts are still recognizably Mac, but the shift-option group ranges all over the map. I remember when those changed. Looks like I may have to look at my original information upside-down and backwards to get it sorted out. Or see if there are any really, really old Mac-related books in my garage. I threw most of them out when I retired the SE and the PowerBase.

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Confused?
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The tool for this is Ukelele:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&itemid=ukelele
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No I did not. But I assume you are a gnome user. If you are, any quick search of the forums and you would have found numerous threads all addressing this problem. If you subscribe to arch-general, you also would have seen this issue arise.

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jv,
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Ah I see what you mean about the emergency boot drive. But as I can do repair via targeted disk mode is there anything that an emergency boot drive would give me that I currently can't do? I suppose it would tell me whether the problem is with the drive itself or something else... it does seem very odd that I can get into safe mode, yet I can't get into OS X normally even after a restore from time machine or a archive and install.
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I use "us-acentos" keymap and since 2014-09-24 upgrade the dead keys are no longer working: typing apostrophe followed by "e" should print "é" but instead it just prints the apostrophe.
This under X both in bash and in a graphical editor such as leafpad, geany, netbeans. In a non-X session the dead keys do not work either, an apostrophe followed by "e" will just display a space.
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Output of locale-ctl status:
System locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8;
VC Keymap: us-acentos;
X11 Layout: n/a.
Output of pacman.log:
[2014-09-24 16:59] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded bash (4.3.024-1 -> 4.3.024-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] installed ca-certificates-utils (20140325-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] installed ca-certificates-mozilla (3.17-3)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] installed ca-certificates-cacert (20140824-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded ca-certificates (20140325-1 -> 20140325-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded efivar (0.10.8.g81d0146-1 -> 0.11-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded efibootmgr (0.7.0.16.g099e110-1 -> 0.8.0-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded rtmpdump (20131205-1 -> 20140918-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded libx264 (1:142.20140826-1 -> 1:142.20140826-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.3.3-2 -> 1:2.4.1-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded nspr (4.10.6-1 -> 4.10.7-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded nss (3.16.3-1 -> 3.17-3)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded firefox (32.0.1-1 -> 32.0.2-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded firefox-i18n-fr (32.0.1-1 -> 32.0.2-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded gegl (0.2.0-11 -> 0.2.0-12)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded gstreamer (1.4.1-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded gst-plugins-base-libs (1.4.1-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded gst-plugins-base (1.4.1-1 -> 1.4.2-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded k3b (2.0.2-9 -> 2.0.2-10)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded libgpg-error (1.14-1 -> 1.16-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded libtirpc (0.2.4-1 -> 0.2.5-1)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded xine-lib (1.2.6-1 -> 1.2.6-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded opencv (2.4.9-4 -> 2.4.9-5)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded openresolv (3.5.7-1 -> 3.5.7-2)
[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded openscenegraph (3.2.1-1 -> 3.2.1-2)
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[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded x264 (1:142.20140826-1 -> 1:142.20140826-2)
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[2014-09-24 17:03] [PACMAN] upgraded xorg-server (1.16.0-6 -> 1.16.1-1)
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Follow-up:
1) I could restore the keyboard in X with this command:
$ localectl set-x11-keymap us pc104 alt-intl
which creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
another option that worked was to rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf.pacsave to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf, which also contained the "XkbLayout" and "XkbVariant" lines under "InputClass" (the original file had been renamed to .pacsave in February 2013). See wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg
The output from localectl status now reads:
System Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
VC Keymap: us-acentos
X11 Layout: us
X11 Model: pc105
X11 Variant: intl
X11 Options: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
So it seems that the result of an earlier upgrade was to "unset" the keyboard for X (compare with output from localectl status in original post). Why?
2) the keyboard in console (out of X) is still not working. If I try to set it to "us-alt-intl" in /etc/vconsole.conf, it works as "us" should (no dead keys); it I use "us-acentos" some keys do not work. locale-ctl shows that "us-acentos" does exist (but not "us-alt-intl").
Mystery.

Bug Report: The keyboard focus doesn't automatical...

Bug Report: When a conversation window opens, the focus doesn't automatically land in the chat entry text field.
Since the new interface for Skype was introduced officially in Skype 7.0, there is a bug with the system/keyboard focus for a new conversation window. When Skype is in "Split Window View" and each new conversation automatically pops up in a separate window, the system/keyboard focus doesn't land in the chat entry edit field. Instead, the user has to press Shift+TAB a couple of times, to move it there and reply to the chat message received. This especially problematic for screen reader users, who rely on keyboard navigation. This mainly occurs when a new conversation is started with an incoming message, but it sometimes occurs when moving the focus out of that conversation window and later back in it again (while it is still opened).
Steps to reproduce it:
1. From "View" menu, activate the "Split Window View", if it is not already enabled.
2. From Tools -> Options -> IM & SMS -> IM settings, enable "Open a new window when I receive a new message in Split Window View", if it is not already enabled.
3. From Tools -> Options -> Advanced, activate "Enable accessible mode", if it is not already enabled.
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Test environment:
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- Skype version: 7.0.0.102 for Desktop.

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www.colemak.com/Compare
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I just want everybody to know there is a third option out there and its great. If ever Colemak goes away I will be going back to Dvorak. I will never learn the Qwerty keyboard layout ever again.
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iPad's virtual keyboard has a context-menu: when you hold a finger down on the -a- key of the English keyboard, for example, a context-menu appears showing various accented/combining forms of the character -a- from which you can choose. Is there a way for users to add items to this context-menu? Could one add [ð] [u00F0, 'Latin eth'] to the [d] key's context-menu and [þ] [u00FE, 'Latin thorn'] to the [t] key's context-menu?

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Try to repeatedly bring your application window, screen sized, in the foreground focus.
Then work with a KeyAdapter.

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Hi,
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I have two laptops running Arch Linux. On the first I have set norwegian keyboard with:
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in then keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf.
On the second I have usede
localectl set-x11-keymap no
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What ist best practice?
Last edited by torors (2014-07-30 14:53:22)

localectl creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
EndSection
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$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
Neither of hem has /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf, but they have /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf - xorg-server 1.16 style.
Last edited by karol (2014-07-30 12:54:24)

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/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf (created by localectl)
# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file
# manually too freely.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
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Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
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Option "XkbLayout" "de,ru"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbVariant" ","
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
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locale is C
Trying to load rules file ./rules/evdev...
Trying to load rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev...
Success.
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rules: evdev
model: pc104
layout: de,us
variant: ,
options: grp:alt_shift_toggle
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keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwertz)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+de+us:2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)
geometry: pc(pc104)
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwertz)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+de+us:2+inet(evdev)+group(alt_shift_toggle)"};
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" };
Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? I would appreciate any help.
Thomas

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Keyboard Layout files directory ?

Hi all,
I recently got an english/arabic keyboard. I've noticed a slight layout issue with the "Arabic-PC". It appears the best of the default arabic layouts. I can easily correct thing with using Ukelele. The issue is I'm unable to locate the Arabic-PC layout file to load and use as a template with Ukelele.
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The issue is I'm unable to locate the Arabic-PC layout file to load and use as a template with Ukelele.
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http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/08/another-arabic-keyboard-layout.html

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