Bruno Boettcher said: > in the meantime i played around with the settings-menu of gnome and > tryed to modify the layout, dead-keys and caps-lock behaviour there, and > i managed to neutralize the capslock (YEAH!) found out that i have a > "compose" functionality to generate the accented chars on a german kbd > (at least my french friends will stop yelling at me for not writing our > the accents) but the compose is still less fast than dead-keys.... > > despite the fact of having changed the kbd layout to german, instead of > german-nodeadkeys, i still haven't any deadkeys available.... > > ah and strange part, the xorg file changed! the keyboard part vanished > from the conf file.... so if someone has a hint on how to get the > dead-keys working....
I'm using xkb. Dump the original keymap with: xkbcomp $DISPLAY layout.xkb Edit to taste. Then recompile and replace with: xkbcomp layout.xkb $DISPLAY Might work for you. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org