US-Keyboard-Layout-with-German-Umlauts

This project provides keyboardlayouts and instructions to achieve:

• Deactivate Caps Lock
• CapsLock + a = ä
• CapsLock + s = ß
• CapsLock + e = €
• CapsLock + u = ü
• CapsLock + o = ö
• CapsLock + Shift + a = Ä
• CapsLock + Shift + u = Ü
• CapsLock + Shift + o = Ö

Install Instructions

All OS Instructions depend on you having US keyboard Layout selected.

Linux

Alternative a: Xmodmap

• Copy Linux/xmodmap/Xmodmap to ~/.Xmodmap
• Run xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap (You can add this to e.g. gnome-session-properties)

Alternative b: X11

• Copy Linux/X11/us_umlauts to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us_umlauts

• Edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml to include the following snippet

  The part is marked with the Start us umlauts and End us umlauts comments.

  I pasted mine right before the English layout configuration.

  <layoutList>
    <!-- Start us umlauts -->
    <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>us_umlauts</name>
        <shortDescription>en</shortDescription>
        <description>English (US, with umlauts)</description>
        <languageList>
          <iso639Id>eng</iso639Id>
        </languageList>
      </configItem>
      <variantList></variantList>
    </layout>
    <!-- End us umlauts -->
    <layout>
      <configItem>
        <name>us</name>
        <!-- Keyboard indicator for English layouts -->
        <shortDescription>en</shortDescription>
        <description>English (US)</description>

• Select the layout in the Region & Language Input Sources

Windows

Alternative a: KeyTweak

(Made with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339 )

• Extract Windows/US_German_Umlauts.zip
• Run setup.exe
• Go to "Control Panel" -> "Change keyboards or input methods"
• Hit the button "Change keyboards"
• In "Default input language" choose "English (United States) - US - German Umlauts"
• Hit "OK" and "OK"
• Download and install KeyTweak (e.g. from http://www.pcworld.com/product/947513/keytweak.html )
• Map CapsLock to Right Alt
• Reboot

Alternative b: AutoHotkey

• Download and install AutoHotkey Version 1.x (v2 will work with different Syntax)
• Copy the script file *.ahk
• Right-click on the Start button and choose Explore All Users
• Navigate to the Startup folder inside the Programs folder and paste the script file
• The shortcut to the script should now be in the Startup folder
• After reboot it should work, without reboot just Double-Click on the script file

OSX

(Made with Ukulele http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele)

• Download U.S. German Umlauts.dmg
• Follow the copy recommendation in the DMG-container.
• (You may need to enter your login password)
• Reboot
• Go to "System Preferences" -> "Keyboard" -> "Input Sources"
• Hit the "+" button
• Go to Others, select "U.S. German Umlauts" and hit the "Add" button
• Select "U.S. German Umlauts" and exit "System Preferences"
• Download and install "PCKeyboardHack" (e.g. from https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html.en )
• Start "PCKeyboardHack"
• Go to section "Caps Lock"
• Check the checkbox and set keycode (double click the number)
• Enter 58