On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Tony Harlequin wrote: > As for X the keyboards, they are all in /etc/X11/xkbd > > The ones I have listed are ru, ge_ru and ru_yawerty. > You might find more if you do apt-cache search.
I think I might have found why I get an error trying to enter ru_yawerty into setxkbmap. The directory you mention actually doesn't have any keyboard map listings in it: it has subdirectories and some README type files, but no keyboard map listings. At least not on my Debian unstable system. The contents of the directory are: /compat, geometry.dir, keymap.dir, /rules, /types, compat.dir, /keycodes, README, /semantics, types.dir, /compiled, keycodes.dir, README.config, /symbols, xkbcomp, /geometry, /keymap, README.enhancing, symbols.dir. Under the symbols subdirectory I find a pretty long list of what appear to be keyboard maps though, along with another set of subdirectories. The subdirectories appear to be for varying types of keyboards (manufacturers): /digitial, /fujitsu, /hp, /macintosh, /nec, /pc, /sgi, /sony - and so forth. Among the apparent keyboard map entries listed in this symbols subdirectory there are, indeed, the ru, ge_ru and ru_yawerty you mention (along with alot of others). Guessing from my last post where an error message mentioned something like pc/ru_yawerty not found, I've decided that maybe, since my XF86Config-4 file has my keyboard listed as "pc104," the keyboard map entries need to be under the subdirectory /pc within the symbols subdirectory. Does that sound right? There's definitely no ge_ru or ru_yawerty entry in there now (though ru is there). Maybe I just need to copy it over from /etc/X11/xkb/symbols to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc? Why it's not already there is unclear to me. But logic tells me this may be the way to get the phonetic ru_yawerty keyboard map loading instead of the ru one. If it's true, I'm a little surprised it's taken so much effort and digging to find such a simple process. Anyway, if I meet with success with this I'll only need to puzzle out how/where to get a Greek keyboard map that allows entry of diacriticals: I'll need some sort of "dead keys" for this, it seems - i.e., keys that insert a symbol without advancing. That may be a tougher problem. James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
