help.ubuntu.com/community/Howto%3A%20Custom%20keyboard%20layout%20definitions - Documentation references non existent html file

[Kill Animals]

rules/evdev.html does not exist.

I am also uncertain whether this tutorial still works or not. Have been trying to use it without success.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

I tried to add a "Needs Updating" tag to the page, but the odd page name makes it impossible to edit with my Firefox browser. Hence there is a need to rename the page to start with.

Can some wiki administrator look at this, please?

[Elizabeth K. Joseph (lyz)]

I have the same problem with Chrome even as an admin and the unusual browsers I have installed aren't cooperating with openid authentication. I'll poke around with some other options.

[Elizabeth K. Joseph (lyz)]

Looks like we'll need Canonical here, I opened up ticket #25006 with IS

[Elizabeth K. Joseph (lyz)]

Upstream issue with the wiki software. We worked around it with webdev tools in the browser, I've gone ahead and set up a redirect from the old url we can't edit and the new page is at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Custom%20keyboard%20layout%20definitions

This includes full page history and I've added the Needs Updating tag.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks Elizabeth!

@Akiva:

Please note that the new page is a wiki page which anybody can edit - including you. ;-)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
To the extent you know how it should be changed, it would be great if you could fix it.

Closing this bug, since we don't use bugs to keep track of individual wiki pages.

[dan (hmmdan)]

I'm working on a new keyboard map myself atm (Yiddish) so thought I'd just chip in and say that rules/evdev.html is now rules/evdev.xml

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for letting us know, Dan. That's an easy change, which I just made.

[dan (hmmdan)]

Thank *you* Gunnar :)

[Jasen (bun21)]

hmm, not editable any more,

it says: "/usr/include/X11/keysymsdef.h" whic should be "usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h"

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2016-03-27 22:34, Jasen wrote:
> hmm, not editable any more,

Yes it is, but due to spam problems you now need to be a member of <https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-etherpad>.

> it says: "/usr/include/X11/keysymsdef.h" whic should be
> "usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h"

Ok, I just made that correction.

[Didi Kohen (kohen-d)]

The link to the non specific documentation should have the tilde (~) removed, the URL was changed

[Rafael Dantas (rafagd)]

> Editing an existing layout
>
> For example, suppose you have a Spanish language keyboard and want to add a dead key for the
> tilde accent for chatting with your Brazilian friends. You might then opt to place the tilde
> accent on the ñ key, because it has that symbol printed right on the key (albeit over the "n").

I'm not sure this was intended as a joke by the original author, but Brazilians neither speak Spanish or have a use for the ñ key. We speak Portuguese and we don't have ñ in our language. Portuguese and Spanish tend to be somewhat intelligible for speakers on both sides, but that doesn't mean they are the same language.

Also, it seems this page is stuck in limbo for the last 8 years.

[Michael (mangelozzi)]

Its a bit frustrating that one can't easily remap keys, spent 3 days trying (to make Escape act like Capslock, Capslock act like Super, and Super act like Escape), even the official documentation is out of date and does not work. I don't think anyone knows how to successfully create a new layout with debian. The only helpful docs are for arch linux.