MTGAP on Linux (xkbmap)

README.md

MTGAP on Linux!

1. Add the contents of us below to the end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us
2. Add the contents of base.lst below to the end of /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
3. Add the <variant>....</variant> block in base.xml below to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml (under the variantList for English)
4. Copy /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst and /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml
5. Reboot
6. Choose layout in the layout manager for your WM and enable it!

Issues

• Caps is not mapped to backspace (something modifier)

base.lst

  mtgap           us: English (MTGAP)

base.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xkbConfigRegistry SYSTEM "xkb.dtd">
<xkbConfigRegistry version="1.1">
  <modelList>
    ....
  </modelList>
  <layoutList>
    <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>us</name>

        <shortDescription>en</shortDescription>
        <description>English (US)</description>
        <languageList>
          <iso639Id>eng</iso639Id>
        </languageList>
      </configItem>
      <variantList>
        ....
        <variant>
          <configItem>
            <name>mtgap</name>
            <description>English (MTGAP)</description>
           </configItem>
        </variant>
      </variantList>
    </layout>
    ....
  </layoutList>
  <optionList>
    ....
  </optionList>
</xkbConfigRegistry>

us

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "mtgap" {

    name[Group1]= "English (MTGAP)";

    key <TLDE> {	[     backslash,	asciicircum	]	};
    key <AE01> {	[	  1,	asciitilde 		]	};
    key <AE02> {	[	  2,	bracketleft		]	};
    key <AE03> {	[	  3,	braceleft	]	};
    key <AE04> {	[	  4,	less		]	};
    key <AE05> {	[	  5,	numbersign		]	};
    key <AE06> {	[	  6,	bar	]	};
    key <AE07> {	[	  7,	percent	]	};
    key <AE08> {	[	  8,	greater	]	};
    key <AE09> {	[	  9,	braceright	]	};
    key <AE10> {	[	  0,	bracketright	]	};
    key <AE11> {	[     q,	Q	]	};
    key <AE12> {	[     z,	Z		]	};

    key <AD01> {	[	  y,	Y 		]	};
    key <AD02> {	[	  p,	P		]	};
    key <AD03> {	[	  o,	O		]	};
    key <AD04> {	[	  u,	U		]	};
    key <AD05> {	[	  minus,	ampersand		]	};
    key <AD06> {	[	  k,	K		]	};
    key <AD07> {	[	  d,	D		]	};
    key <AD08> {	[	  l,	L		]	};
    key <AD09> {	[	  c,	C		]	};
    key <AD10> {	[	  w,	W		]	};
    key <AD11> {	[ x,	X	]	};
    key <AD12> {	[ underscore,	plus	]	};

    key <AC01> {	[	  i,	I 		]	};
    key <AC02> {	[	  n,	N		]	};
    key <AC03> {	[	  e,	E		]	};
    key <AC04> {	[	  a,	A		]	};
    key <AC05> {	[	  comma,	colon		]	};
    key <AC06> {	[	  m,	M		]	};
    key <AC07> {	[	  h,	H		]	};
    key <AC08> {	[	  t,	T		]	};
    key <AC09> {	[	  s,	S		]	};
    key <AC10> {	[ r,	R		]	};
    key <AC11> {	[ quotedbl,	equal	]	};

    key <AB01> {	[	  parenleft,	exclam 		]	};
    key <AB02> {	[	  parenright,	question		]	};
    key <AB03> {	[	  apostrophe,	asterisk		]	};
    key <AB04> {	[	  period,	semicolon		]	};
    key <AB05> {	[	  slash,	ampersand		]	};
    key <AB06> {	[	  b,	B		]	};
    key <AB07> {	[	  f,	F		]	};
    key <AB08> {	[     g,	G		]	};
    key <AB09> {	[    v,	V		]	};
    key <AB10> {	[     j,	J	]	};

    key <BKSL> {	[ dollar,         grave	]	};
    
    key <CAPS> {    [ BackSpace, BackSpace] };

};