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The Backtick That (Almost) Broke Me: Fixing German XKB Dead Keys on Linux - André Klein Dot Net (andreklein.net)
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[–] Azzu@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I simply made my own keyboard layout. Accent grave is just a single press for me, altgr+accent is the "normal" combining one. Also changed äö to () and shift+äö to [].

It's not that hard, it's just a markup file I had to copy+modify and put in some folder.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Legit possible solution.
But I normally omit changing the behaviour of the standard keyboard as it will bite me the moment that I am not on my own computer.

Only exception:
I use a similar approach to disable the Tab-Key (and in one case, on a machine with a stripped down keyboard missing the "Pos1" and "End" keys, use Tab and Shift-Tab to emulate these).

[–] Azzu@leminal.space 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Meh, how often do you really do some serious work where you're not on your own hardware? Depends on your job I guess, if you're company tech support and walk around to people's PCs the whole time, but if you're a programmer or similar, when are you really not going to do your work on your PC?

It's not like you can't work with a default layout afterwards, you're just going to be a bit slower on one. It really didn't happen very often for me in years of working.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Meh, how often do you really do some serious work where you’re not on your own hardware?

As a SW dev in a predev lab / tech demonstration environment: Unfortunately much more often than you would perhaps think...