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Remapping the Keyboard

GTKeyboard allows you to use several different foreign character keyboard layouts to edit text in the text window of the application, but at the same time, it lets you direct characters to foreign windows. Remapping the keyboard is the way that you coordinate these two objectives.

The X Windowing System provides a way to change what each keypress on the keyboard does. In order to go from using an American keyboard to a German keyboard in a foriegn window, you first have to change the layout of your window to ``DE'' for German layout, and then you have to choose the option Misc $\Longrightarrow$ Remap Keyboard which will essentially change the function of just about every key on your keyboard. There are several very important things that you need to know about this process.



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David Allen 2001-04-26