local xkb layouts

[Dirk Wallenstein]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:41:16PM +0100, Stefan Witzel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to extend the system-wide xkb layout database by 
> user-specific files. And if not: why is that?
> I ran into this problem because I want a german 
> "deadgraveacutecircum"-layout in which grave acute and circumflex are 
> dead but tilde is not. But on systems where I am not administrator I 
> cannot install this. And even on systems where I am administrator I 
> would have to renew my changes after every upgrade.
> Would the "right" way to do it be to use the standard layout (with dead 
> tilde) and then use a .Xmodmap? Every time I tried that I got strange 
> effects when switching between multiple xkb layouts.
> Thanks in advance for any help!

If you know how to edit XKB keymaps and only need one specific
keymap for yourself, I would suggest to simply load the wanted keymap
with xkbcomp at startup.  I do that in the KDE autostart folder.

-- 
Greetings,
Dirk