Extending the X keyboard map with xkbxmodmap has long been the only way to modify the keyboard map of the X server, short of the complex configuration daemon approaches used by the large desktop managers, like KDE and GNOME. But it has always been a hack: it modifies the X keyboard map and thus requires a baseline to work from, kind of like a patch needs the correct context to be applicable. Worse yet, xmodmap weirdness required me t
Creating custom keyboard layouts for X11 using XKB - Linux.com
