On Tuesday 06 March 2001 10:38, AUBORD Alain wrote: > On 5-Mar-01 at 11:29, Frank Mehnert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is a German Keyboard layout without deadkeys available in KDE2.1 potato? > > I get similar problem with swiss-french keyboard. I was not able to do what > I want with the new tools (xkb, Xfree config). I have changed the keyboard > with the "xmodmap" utility. Now it works well.
Aha! That's my failure. I thought that KDE changes the keyboard settings itself, but it's an X setting. Since I'm using XFree86 4.0.2 (on potato), the right entry in /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 is Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" Thanks for your tip. Greetings, Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##