In X Manager or X Manager for Domains, click Tools> Keyboard Maps.
Select an editable keyboard map (or click Clone to create a new editable map).
In the Keyboard Maps dialog box, click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
In the Shortcuts column, add a shortcut key or select an existing shortcut key.
Select Send X Keysyms.
Click the + sign.
NOTE:Administrators can also configure Keyboard Maps from the Domain Definitions tab.
You can create a keyboard shortcut that is associated with an X Keysym An X Keysym is an encoding of a symbol on the cap of a key. The set of defined X Keysyms includes the ISO Latin character sets, Katakana, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Technical, Publishing, APL, Hebrew, Thai, Korean, and other keys found on keyboards such as Return, Help, and Tab. A list of X Keysyms is associated with each keycode. The list is intended to convey the set of symbols on the corresponding key. Standard rules for obtaining an X Keysym from a KeyPress event make use of only the first four X Keysyms associated with a keycode. Depending on the state of the Shift and ModeSwitch (AltGr) modifiers, one of the first four keysyms will be selected. or a sequence of X Keysyms.
There are two ways you can specify an X Keysym that you want to include in the shortcut:
Press a key to locate the corresponding X Keysym. Click OK to add the selection to the X Keysyms to send list.
Select an X Keysym from a list.
Since the list of X Keysyms is long, it's a good idea to use the filter options below:
Filter X Keysym list by category. For example, selecting Greek as a category will limit the Select list to Greek X Keysyms only.
Only list X Keysyms whose names contain: The Select list will include only those X Keysyms that contain the character or character sequence you type.
You can return to this dialog box to add other X Keysyms to the shortcut.
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