OT: labeling keys on the keyboard for an additional language

[Matthias Apitz]

El día martes, octubre 06, 2020 a las 01:50:11a. m. +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev escribió:

Привет Алексей,

> > I've configured with a file of xmodmaps commands using the Win-key as
> > modifiers so that Win+key gives the row of chars below the lines of
> > normal German chars:
> 
> Quick question: why not simply add "ru" layout to your existing "de" one
> and switch between them?

I can (and have for test) added "ru" in KDE to the keyboard layouts.
This gives while typing the keys the layout like this one:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/russian_keyboard_layout.html

The problem is: what is written as German labels on each key has
nothing todo with what letter is produced. I tried with my solution that the
German label on the key gives in most cases an idea about the produced
letter. Look at my page 

http://www.unixarea.de/CyrillicKeys.png

to get the idea, for example the German key labeled 'v' gives the
Russian letter 'в', and the German key 'd' gives the Russian letter 'д'.
Of course for a native Russian who is used to type on a Russian keyboard
this isn't good because the keys are no longer in their usual place. But
I'm not Russian and neither used to a Russian keyboard layout.

Because the mapping 'German label to Russian letter' isn't perfect, I was
looking for a method to label the keys as the above picture on my server
shows.

An additional method would be an OSK (On Screen Keyboard), like
https://sourceforge.net/projects/florence/#screenshots
but "typing" phrases with the mouse is also not very handy.

Спасибо!
До свидания

	matthias

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