xkb-qwerty-fr

Section: Qwerty french keyboard (7)
Updated: 2012-11-10
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qwerty-fr - French qwerty keyboard mapping

DESCRIPTION

Keymap for french users of qwerty keyboard. All french characters are directly accessible with AltGr and smartly mapped. You also can compose french characters using dead keys with AltGr to.

ENABLING THE QWERTY-FR KEYMAP

Command line

Use the command setxkbmap: setxkbmap us qwerty-fr

Gnome

In menu System/Preferences, open Keyboard property. In this window, section Layout, click on the button add. Then select layout USA and choose variant "With french symbols" and set it as default keymap.

KDE

In control panel, select the layout USA and variant "With french symbols", set it as default keymap, then validate.

EXTENDED CHARACTERS

Direct characters

Grave accent: Press AltGr + corresponding letter. (This works for letters e, u, i, o and a.)
Acute accent: Press AltGr + key left the corresponding letter. (This works for the letter e.)
Circumflex: Press AltGr + key above the corresponding letter. (This works for letters e, y, u, i, o and a.)
Diaeresis: Press AltGr + key bellow the corresponding letter. (This works for letters e, y, u, i, o and a.)
Cedilla: Press AltGr + corresponding letter. (This works for the letter c.)
Stuck e: Press AltGr + key right the corresponding letter. (This works for letters o and a.)

Composed characters

First, press the dead key with corresponding diacritics and in a second time the character to compose with.

Grave accent dead key: AltGr + inverted quote
Acute accent dead key: AltGr + quote
Circumflex dead key: AltGr + 6
Diaeresis dead key: AltGr + double quote (AltGr + Shift + quote)
Cedilla dead key: AltGr + comma
Tild dead key: AltGr + tild (AltGr + Shift + inverted quote)
Ring dead key: Shift + degree (AltGr + Shift + dot)
Caron dead key: Shift + circumflex dead key (AltGr + Shift + 6)

Uppercase characters with diacritics

In case of generating a direct character:: Press shift modifier while pressing other keys.
In case of generating a composed character:: First press corresponding diacritics dead key then press shift + the character to compose with.
Using Caps locks...: is the last way you can use to write in uppercase.

OVERALL VIEW

An overall view is available in the utf8 text file /usr/share/doc/xkb-qwerty-fr/keymap.txt

TESTING TEXT

You should be able to retype this french text without dead keys :

"Dès Noël où un zéphyr haï me vêt de glaçons würmiens je dîne d'exquis rôtis de bœuf au kir à l'aÿ d'âge mûr & cæera !"

(Jacques André - Petites leçons de typographie)

FILES

/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/us: The file containing the mapping of characters.

AUTHOR

This package is maintained by Julien Blitte <julien.blitte@gmail.com>. All files of the package are released under GNU/GPL 2.0 License.

Index

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DESCRIPTION

ENABLING THE QWERTY-FR KEYMAP

Command line
Gnome
KDE

EXTENDED CHARACTERS

Direct characters
Composed characters
Uppercase characters with diacritics

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Time: 22:00:00 GMT, November 11, 2012