A new nice trick for the Linux keyboard: greek letters

New layout for my Spanish keyboard

I do not know you, but me (as an engineer) use Greek letters like α, β, γ and so on quite often. I did a small change to my linux keyboard layout: the new part in the keyboard symbols files now is

partial alphanumeric_keys xkb_symbols “standard_tlde” { include “es(basic)” key <TLDE> { [ grave, asciitilde, […]

How to modify a keyboard layout in Linux

New layout for my Spanish keyboard

Or: how to define a programmer-friendl(er) Spanish keyboard. …and you can add Greek, too!

A bit of history

There was a time when the computers all had the same keyboard — basically, the US one. You really do not need any more; the set of characters that could be represented where, after all, just the […]