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1. Tilde sign -------------
get a ~.Tilde sign (~) should be a normal (not a blind) key. In Windows I hit AltGr+"+" to get ~, in XWin I need to type AltGr+"+" then space toSee attachment for the initial XWin xmodmap -pke table. Possible xmodmap correction (works fine): keycode 35 = plus asterisk plus asterisk asciitilde
This is a can of worms I don't want to open :-)
At the moment, in the 'de' layout, the tilde deadkey will add a macron diacritic, e.g. AltGr + "+" + a = ã.
I really lack the expertise to determine if this is a bug in xkeyboard-config (if this german keyboard behavior is something no german keyboard user would ever expect or want)
The xkb configurations we use come from the xkeyboard-config project, and aren't trying to be identical to Windows, but to conform to the appropriate national standards and user expectations.
However, I can see in the case of XWin this is problematic, as it will be confusing to switch between X and normal Windows windows which have different keyboard behavior.
I did some research: German computer keyboard layout is defined in DIN 2137-2. And to my surprise I found, that tilde is a dead key there. That means, that the xkeyboard-config project perfectly matches the DIN norm, while Windows (where the key is not dead) does not match it. So I understand, that you may want to stick to the DIN norm.
A workaround for guys like me, who want the XWin keyboard work the same like Windows, is possible with xmodmap, so yeah ... let's close this point.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9752 [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00495.html
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