Hello everyone, I am currently trying to set up a kmonad config file to replace the autohotkey script I used on windows. My goal is simply to use the right alt key in combination with a,o,u and so on to type german umlaut characters like ä,ö,ü, etc.
So far I am having trouble even getting kmonad to run the config. I guess I probably misunderstand how this is supposed to work significantly. My initial config file was generated by ChatGPT since I had no idea where to even start.
This is my current config file
(defcfg
input (device-file "/dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd")
output (uinput-sink "kmonad_keyboard")
fallthrough true
allow-cmd true
)
(defsrc
ralt a o u s lsft
)
(deflayer german
ralt-a "ä"
ralt-o "ö"
ralt-u "ü"
ralt-s "ß"
ralt-shift-a "Ä"
ralt-shift-o "Ö"
ralt-shift-u "Ü"
)
Any help would be appreciated.
The way I understood the compose key is that it requires me to type a combination in order to get the actual character I want.
What I want is to use the right alt key more like a layer modifier (just like shift works to switch between numbers and signs for example), in order to get my special characters
Well you can have 1 letter sequences which is almost what you want. For example have a sequence that consists of single “u” key that composes into “ü” or something similar.
I don’t know if it’s the same in every DE/Distro, but in KDE I’m pretty sure I can both hold the Compose key and type sequences, or press Compose key once and then type a sequence.
But can’t check right now.