Kudos go to Frank Murphy, Oliver Ripka and John "I feel your pain, brother" Lennon .. I wouldn't have made it 'til here without their help.
The solution is a *perhaps* (not being sure on this .. ) more or less out-dated keyboard.tar.gz that is linked to from here: http://www.pl-forum.de/t_system/ibook-debian/part2.html. I downloaded and installed successfuly the tarball from this last URL or from here (I forgot which one I took :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/debian-powerpc-200112/msg00234.html It seems I wasn't the first one with more or less unusable German keyboard on X. I had a closer look at the directory where the tarball mentioned on http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2001/debian-powerpc-200112/msg00234.html is stored and found even slightly changed keymaps (Although, AFAICS, they seem to be console maps (??) -- please see below). As the manual on http://www.pl-forum.de/t_system/ibook-debian/part2.html is in German here's in short what I did: I copied from the unpacked tarball the xkb/ directory to /etc/X11/xkb, after backing up the original /etc/X11/xkb/ before. After editing the keyboard section of my XF86Config-4 according to the XF86Config-4 from keyboard.tar.gz I copied ibook2-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz and ibook2-de-latin1.kmap.gz to /etc/X11/, altho I'm definitely not quite sure whether this made any sense as these 2 maps, AFAICS, are console maps (?) The drawback of this procedure: some files in /xkb/ from keyboard.tar.gz are about 18 months old, and they differ from the previous old ones in xkb/. So I only can hope this fact will not break anything here on the machine. BTW: The problem before was, too, that, as it seems to me, ~/.Xmodmap was not read or recognized by FVWM or whatever at the start of X ... Best Regards, and Thanks to everyone who was helping. Wolfgang On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 6:38, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On 27 Jul 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 05:06, Thomas Otto wrote: > > > > > I'm missing the bar sign, the @ sign (I had to paste this one from > > > > > the address in the header), bracketleft, bracketright, EuroSign and I > > > > > don't know what else on the keyboard on X. > > > > > > > > Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap > > > > which i load when I login. > > > > > > It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no > > > better myself. :) > > > > But where *is* this keymap that will be read at the start of an X session > > on Debian 3.0. r1 /testing? > > Should be /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de. You can make changes to that file > (make a copy first), and run setxkbmap to get the changes. Run setxkbmap with > -v 10 to get some output. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
