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X system typing (tajpu equivalent) in Ubuntu / Linux

by chrisim101010, February 5, 2012

Messages: 36

Language: English

erinja (User's profile) February 29, 2012, 4:37:23 PM

I prefer the x system myself.

It's convenient because I never have to change how I type. My computer automatically converts the x's to the correct letters, and if I'm on someone else's computer - I simply end up with x-system text, which also can be read with ease.

I wonder if it's possible to program a custom keyboard so that it automatically understands that cx means ĉ, the same as a computer recognizes that a compose key and then a certain key equals some particular letter?

komenstanto (User's profile) February 29, 2012, 5:58:10 PM

I think on Ubuntu, if you will, that you can use a program called "xbindkeys" to do it somehow. You could simply bind the compose key and the ^ key, so that it is one key, though it would permanently make it just that key. All other uses of the compose key would be forfeit. But you could say use the right-compose key for Esperanto and the left for other things maybe? Are you only allowed one compose key? This would produce most of the Esperanto letters fairly easy though. One might need a bash-script to go along with this though:

http://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html

If your computer auto-converts them anyway, I would just go with that.

This program is sort of fun on any Linux distribution to bind weird scripts to keys that you dont use normally. For instance, if I press F12, my DVD drive will open automatically, as if a ghost pressed the button to slide the tray out. And I have it in a loop, so that if I press F12 again it closes.

Hyperboreus (User's profile) March 1, 2012, 8:08:47 PM

Forigite

darkweasel (User's profile) March 1, 2012, 8:33:55 PM

Hyperboreus:
darkweasel posted somewhere on this forum a working xconf for X11-based GUIs.
Yes, I use a dead circumflex key to type in Esperanto.

It might be possible to change it to use something similar to the x system.

eddyh (User's profile) March 2, 2012, 10:28:26 AM

I use Ubuntu Linux.

I enter text using the X-system then convert it using a simple Perl program. (Anyone can have a copy.)

One advantage of this way is that I can use the same keyboard layout across a number of languages.

komenstanto (User's profile) March 2, 2012, 8:17:44 PM

If you are writing on the internet, as many Esperantists are, firefox has the Esperanto toolbar, that has a dictionary search and the special chars on it. There is also a headline from the Libra Folio news site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/e...

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