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.
I'm not sure whether this file is responsible for a working German keyboard on X. If I run a diff on the file above from my old "non-working" /etc/X11/xkb folder against the the new one, this is what I get (complete output) (Note: In xkb.old/ below are the files I was using before, which, as it seems didn't work to give me a usable X keyboard, and in xkb/ below the currently used files that, as it seems, work here): -------------------------------- ~$ diff -c /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de /etc/X11/xkb.old/symbols/macintosh/de *** /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de Thu Jul 31 15:36:36 2003 --- /etc/X11/xkb.old/symbols/macintosh/de Wed Feb 26 09:39:57 2003 *************** *** 1,5 **** // $XConsortium: de /main/4 1996/08/31 12:19:20 kaleb $ ! // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/de,v 3.7.2.2 1999/07/13 07:09:56 hohndel Exp $ // [EMAIL PROTECTED] very close to MacOS map --- 1,5 ---- // $XConsortium: de /main/4 1996/08/31 12:19:20 kaleb $ ! // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/macintosh/de,v 1.1 2000/09/19 12:46:25 eich Exp $ // [EMAIL PROTECTED] very close to MacOS map ------------------------------- So I'd guess it might be something else that is changing my keyboard here. At the moment I leave the keyboard issue as it is, as I have a working keyboard on X now ... but I might come back to it as soon as I've solved other issues here (as I said previously: the files in the current xkb directory seem to be older than the ones I had there before; and the fact that something "works" on a machine doesn't neccessarily mean that it's right, if I understand correctly ... :) Thanks a lot for your time, Frank. Best Regards, Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
