Karl-Heinz Haag wrote: > Working on X is not very useful. > Because, what and where I type in the X environment -be it into xterms > or somewhere else- I only get weird characters. > I.e. I don't get typed the signs that I press on the keybord. > Even pressing 'Enter' gives a comma sign on the screen. > > How to get the right (german) ?keymap? in X? > > Perhaps it is useful to give the few lines of my > XF86Config-4 refering to the Input devices.
Very useful indeed, most people forget that, thanks. > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbdRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbdModel" "macintosh" > Option "XkbdLayout" "de" > EndSection For one, there are typos here - should be 'Xkb...', not 'Xkbd...' . Moreover, depending if you're using Linux keycodes, you might have to replace the "macintosh" by "pc104". But try fixing the typos first. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
