How to have a comfortable keyboard layout under X. A guide destinated to italian iBook linux users

Target

have the following keymap: apple keyboard = alt gr

Instructions

You’ve to edit your /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 file. Remember to make a backup copy of this file before editing. These’re the easy steps:

• under X run a program like xev to find the exact keycode of your apple key
• change the code with the new one
• comment all the old command referring the new keycode
  

Restart X and keep your finger crossed ;)

How to have a comfortable italian keyboard layout on your iBook.

Target

We just want this mapping:

apple key = alt gr
numpad return (the key near to left arrow) = canc

Procedure

Simply download the file at the end of the page and load it using loadkeys ibook-it.map.gz

Simple, isn’t it?

Download

I found this file over internet, the author is Dario Besseghini. Thank you Dario!

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Just a small announcement: last month (by 14th september) I’ve finished all my exams!!

Obviously I’m really happy but I’m also really busy because I’m working hard on strigi. I’ll let you know something more about it in these days…

In this really small guide you’ll discover howto enable mouse button emulation on a iBook G4 running linux

Target:

I just wanted to enable mouse button emulation on my iBook using the following shortcuts:

fn + ctrl = middle mouse button
fn + alt = left mouse button

Requisites:

You’ve to enable CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN in your kernel.

Commands:

In order to enable this shortcut at every boot add the following lines to your /etc/sysctl.conf:

dev.mac_hid.mouse_button_emulation = 1
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button2_keycode = 97
dev.mac_hid.mouse_button3_keycode = 100

Simple, isn’t it?

Last night I did a lot of work on Tangerine, a standalone DAAP server of mine. I think it’s probably good enough for general use now, as I added a little control panel for enabling/configuring it.

The ‘automatic’ mode uses Beagle, which was really fun to do. Aside from some kind of metadata extraction issue, it works really well.