On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:42:47AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Bek Oberin hat gesagt: // Bek Oberin wrote: > > > One of the last remaining annoyances: I use a modified dvorak > > keyboard layout (ie: not-quite-dvorak, but close) and do most of > > my work in text-mode consoles. But sometimes I have to boot up > > X to run Netscape or PilotManager. > > > > RedHad's X setup had -something- that automatically pulled my > > keyboard layout out of loadkeys and put it into X so I -didn't- > > have to figure out a xmodmap file (which I don't have made > > up) and all that stuff. > > > > I figure Debian can prob'ly do anything RedHat can do ... is there > > a way for this? > > I don't know if debian has this automatized like Redhat somewhere, but you > can use "xkeycaps" to generate a xmodmap file for your layout. > But maybe you can setup your keyboard with the basic X configuration tool > /usr/bin/X11/XF86Setup or /usr/sbin/xbase-configure.
I use a Dvorak keyboard, and I didn't have to do any keyboard reconfiguration under X other than the mandatory Delete/BackSpace business. I was pretty surprised it went so well, actually. I'm not using the XKEYBOARD extension, which doesn't have a good Dvorak map (I heard one had been added to the Open Group's X source, but it hasn't made its way to XF86 and/or Debian yet). If you haven't already disabled XKEYBOARD in your XF86Config, try that. miket
