Alternative keyboard layout of "US international with AltGr dead keys" with french shortcuts

us-altgr-intl-fr.md

To change the keyboard layout :

(On X11 unix systems) Backup and (sudo) edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us

Replace

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "altgr-intl" {
...
};

With the code in the other file.

Unfortunately, adding a new xkb_symbols (and adding it to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml) will cause the AltGr key to become a normal Alt key.

http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Blog/custom-keyboard-in-linuxx11

us-altgr-intl-fr.xkb

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "altgr-intl" {

   include "us(intl)"
   name[Group1]= "English (intl., with AltGr dead keys)";

// five dead keys moved into level3:

   key <TLDE> { [    grave, asciitilde,  dead_grave,   dead_tilde      ] };
   key <AC11> { [apostrophe,quotedbl,    dead_acute,   dead_diaeresis  ] };

// diversions from the MS Intl keyboard:

   key <AE01> { [        1, exclam,      onesuperior,  exclamdown      ] };
//   key <AD04> { [        r, R,           ediaeresis,   Ediaeresis      ] };
   key <AC07> { [        j, J,           idiaeresis,   Idiaeresis      ] };
   key <AB02> { [        x, X,           oe,           OE              ] };
   key <AB04> { [        v, V,           registered,   registered      ] };

// onequarter etc (not in iso8859-15) moved to get three unshifted deadkeys:

//   key <AE06> { [        6, asciicircum, dead_circumflex, onequarter    ] };
//   key <AE07> { [        7, ampersand,   dead_horn,       onehalf       ] };
//   key <AE08> { [        8, asterisk,    dead_ogonek,     threequarters ] };

// klemek edit

// switch level3 shift with non shift

    key <AE06> { [        6, asciicircum, onequarter,    dead_circumflex] };
    key <AE07> { [        7, ampersand,   onehalf,       dead_horn      ] };
    key <AE08> { [        8, asterisk,    threequarters, dead_ogonek    ] };

// preference for this key

    key <LSGT> { [ less,   greater, less, greater ] };

// french shortcuts

    key <AC01> { [         a,          A,        agrave,           Agrave ] };
    key <AC04> { [         f,          F,        egrave,           Egrave ] };
    key <AD07> { [         u,          U,        ugrave,           Ugrave ] };
   key <AD01> { [        q, Q,           acircumflex,   Acircumflex      ] };
   key <AD04> { [        r, R,           ecircumflex,   Ecircumflex      ] };
   key <AD06> { [        y, Y,           ucircumflex,   Ucircumflex      ] };
   key <AD08> { [        i, I,           icircumflex,   Icircumflex      ] };
   key <AD10> { [        p, P,           ocircumflex,   Ocircumflex      ] };


   include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};