Hello friends,
sorry, I know this is not an issue for the list, but … (-;
Can somebody give me a quick hint how to type the ø diameter sign on inkscape Mac OS X ?
Alt-o will open a menu, and a Mac does not have AltGr…
Thanks and greetings,
Wolf
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:36 AM, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
Hello friends,
sorry, I know this is not an issue for the list, but … (-;
Can somebody give me a quick hint how to type the ø diameter sign on inkscape Mac OS X ?
Alt-o will open a menu, and a Mac does not have AltGr…
Thanks and greetings,
Wolf
If you go to settings and look to the keyboard stuff, there should be an option for "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar" or such. Enable that and then you can get the keyboard viewer from the icon in the menu bar. That will show you what keys will result in which characters (it changes by locale). For me, alt/option-o gives the ø character, which *appears* to be what you want. (Might be a different unicode value... I did not check)
If you go to settings and look to the keyboard stuff, there should be an option for "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar" or such. Enable that and then you can get the keyboard viewer from the icon in the menu bar. That will show you what keys will result in which characters (it changes by locale). For me, alt/option-o gives the ø character, which *appears* to be what you want. (Might be a different unicode value... I did not check)
@ Jon
I think You are describing how to do it in the aqua environment. Using inkscape on a mac, I have to use the X11 surroundings.
@all
After some googleing I think it is not so easy to generate characters which are done with AltGr on non-macs. Unluckily on my machine neither copy-paste from X11 to aqua and vice versa works - nor can I import text into inkscape… )-:
Easiest workaround seems to type the unicode hex code ( ctrl-U-<hex code> Enter ) - not really satisfying…
Yours
Wolf
On 15/1/10 19:48, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
If you go to settings and look to the keyboard stuff, there should be an option for "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar" or such. Enable that and then you can get the keyboard viewer from the icon in the menu bar. That will show you what keys will result in which characters (it changes by locale). For me, alt/option-o gives the ø character, which *appears* to be what you want. (Might be a different unicode value... I did not check)
@ Jon
I think You are describing how to do it in the aqua environment. Using inkscape on a mac, I have to use the X11 surroundings.
@all
After some googleing I think it is not so easy to generate characters which are done with AltGr on non-macs. Unluckily on my machine neither copy-paste from X11 to aqua and vice versa works - nor can I import text into inkscape… )-:
Easiest workaround seems to type the unicode hex code ( ctrl-U-<hex code> Enter ) - not really satisfying…
Note: this is about OS X Tiger with an ancient X11 based of XFree86:
Apples 'X11 v. 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0'
which has limited support for clipboard syncing between osx native applications and software running under X11 as well as a different default X11 keymapping (than current X.org based X11/Xquartz versions shipped with Leopard and Snow Leopard) for 'Option/Alt' ('option'+o' would require the option key to be mapped to 'Mode_switch', but afaik that X11 version maps both option keys to Alt_L resp. Alt_R), which is good because Inkscape shortcuts work out of the box (no need for custom ~/.Xmodmap settings), otoh one looses the ability to enter diacritics or other special characters via keyboard entry.
Is there a setting in your X11 preferences to 'Follow system keyboard layout'?
~suv
ps. ping JiHO - is this correct?
Note: this is about OS X Tiger with an ancient X11 based of XFree86:
Apples 'X11 v. 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0'
which has limited support for clipboard syncing between osx native applications and software running under X11 as well as a different default X11 keymapping (than current X.org based X11/Xquartz versions shipped with Leopard and Snow Leopard) for 'Option/Alt' ('option'+o' would require the option key to be mapped to 'Mode_switch', but afaik that X11 version maps both option keys to Alt_L resp. Alt_R), which is good because Inkscape shortcuts work out of the box (no need for custom ~/.Xmodmap settings), otoh one looses the ability to enter diacritics or other special characters via keyboard entry.
Is there a setting in your X11 preferences to 'Follow system keyboard layout'?
Yes, I have it - and it ist choosen.
Greetings,
Wolf
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 20:08, ~suv <suv-sf@...58...> wrote:
Note: this is about OS X Tiger with an ancient X11 based of XFree86:
I am not sure how that used to work on Tiger. However the Xmodmap settings that are described in the FAQ should work. They allow to use the left alt key as alt (hence controlling Inkscape correctly) and the right one as mode switch (which allows to type special characters). At least, my Xmodmap is:
! Switch meta and control keycode 67 = Meta_L keycode 63 = Control_L keycode 71 = Control_R clear mod2 clear control add mod2 = Meta_L add control = Control_L Control_R
! Switch the left alt key to be alt ! and leave the other as Mode_switch, for accents keycode 66 = Alt_L
and this is how it works on my MacBook on 10.6.2.
JiHO --- http://maururu.net
Hello,
I tried both .Xmodmaps - that from the FAQ:
keycode 63 = Control_L keycode 60 = Alt_L keycode 66 = Alt_L clear mod1 clear Control add mod1 = Alt_L add Control = Control_L
and the other one JIHO was so kind to post:
! Switch meta and control keycode 67 = Meta_L keycode 63 = Control_L keycode 71 = Control_R clear mod2 clear control add mod2 = Meta_L add control = Control_L Control_R
! Switch the left alt key to be alt ! and leave the other as Mode_switch, for accents keycode 66 = Alt_L
Neither works on my Tiger machine. Hm. As I have learned about HexCodes inbetween, it's not really urgent. So I ask people to respond only in the case they are a little bored… (-;
Greetings,
Wolf
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
I think You are describing how to do it in the aqua environment. Using inkscape on a mac, I have to use the X11 surroundings.
What I described was what I did while running the X11 version of Inkscape on my Mac running OS X. I did a remote X11 connection to a linux machine I use for building, in fact.
I'm using very stock OS X 10.6.2
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