Bug 99596 - English (Canada) input source is missing the left backslash key
Summary: English (Canada) input source is missing the left backslash key
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xkeyboard-config
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: xkb
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Reported: 2017-01-30 01:52 UTC by Mathew Hodson
Modified: 2017-05-17 14:19 UTC (History)
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Description Mathew Hodson 2017-01-30 01:52:19 UTC 
In Canada, many keyboards are bilingual and have a slightly different layout from US keyboards. They have an additional backslash key next to the left shift key.

Currently, the less-than symbol is mapped to the left backslash key.

I believe this is the change that needs to be made in https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols/ca

 partial alphanumeric_keys
 xkb_symbols "eng" {
     include "us(basic)"
     name[Group1] = "English (Canada)";
+
+ key <LSGT> { [ backslash, bar, voidsymbol, voidsymbol ] };
 };

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Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2017-05-17 14:19:27 UTC 
fair enough, fix committed. Thanks!

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