Those of us using keymaps not being listed in base have similar problem. I use setxkbmap command for X, namely:
$setxkbmap us $setxkbmap hr $setxkbmap sr So I can switch back from Serbian / Croatian to US keyboard once I need to type the command that should be understood by the system. On 9/7/09, shweg...@gmail.com <shweg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually I cannot get it to work also with xterm*locale: true. But never > mind, because having solved the cyrillic input I would have to solve the > chinese input, which I also need, and in xterm seems to be quite > problematic to have all of this together (scim input does seem to work > only with gtk or qt apps, or course there is uim...). This is why I use > roxterm instead, where everything works "out of the box". > Thank you anyway > > On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, 4625 wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:00:04 +0400 >> Kaltashkin Eugene <zhe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> try run "xterm -fn koi9x15 -rv" >> As I told before (see my reply to shweg...@...), 'XTerm*locale: true' >> in ~.Xdefaults will be enough to solve the problem with cyrillic in >> xterm. >> Anyway, thanks for reply. >> >>> >>> -- xorg.conf -- >>> >>> Section "InputDevice" >>> Identifier "keyboard" >>> Driver "kbd" >> ... >>> -- xorg.conf -- >>> >>>> >>>> I have add string 'FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"' >>>> into xorg.conf, then I execute fc-cache. However, these fonts >>>> unavailable in X. What is going wrong? >>>> >>>> fc-cache -v >>>> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file >>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: skipping, 23 fonts, 0 dirs >>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: skipping, 29 fonts, 0 dirs >>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic: skipping, 0 fonts, 0 dirs >>>> >> - >> 4625
