Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-29 Thread Frank Murphy
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:15:37 +1000, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" said: > A common practice also on Macs is to reverse the meaning of Alt & > Command (Meta) so that the key labelled "Alt" actually becomes Meta (and > does the combo thing for ~ or | still) and Command (Meta) becomes Alt. A common trap

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-29 Thread Jaonary Rabarisoa
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0400, Sébastien Mengin wrote: > Le lun 25 oct 04 à 23:30, Sven Luther a écrit: > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > > french mac user knowl

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:56 +0200, Frank Murphy wrote: > Well it could be, but it would be very strange, I think. Both > Mode_switch and ISO_Level3_Shift are like the regular Shift keys. If you > wanted an Altkey and F to be the "alt modifier" + F to open the File > menu, but you want an Altkey an

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:47:59PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:08:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, > > > and > > > there is

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:02:18 +1000, "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" said: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I never fuly understood why you needed to rebuild the xkb module though, nor > > do i really know what should be the right way for it to work in the first > > place, ne

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-28 Thread Colin Leroy
On 27 Oct 2004 at 21h10, Sven Luther wrote: Hi, > The fr_new helped there, but it absolutely baffles me to see that changing the > XF86Config-4 file doesn't get respected, but maybe this is a new and > wonderfull gnome 2.6 feature ? It's true that gnome, since 2.6, annoys me with some "keyboar

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 4:22, Christian Leimer wrote: > Jaonary Rabarisoa wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've just finish to install debian on my albook 15" :-) . I've used > > debian-installer pre-rc2 for this and the installation was successfull. > > The only problem is the keyboard under xfree. With

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-27 Thread Alain Perry
Le mercredi 27 octobre 2004 à 21:52 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:47:32AM +0200, Alain Perry wrote: > > Le mardi 26 octobre 2004 à 10:39 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > I am suspecting that this is a gonme 2.6 feature, or maybe something else > such. Well, under Debian,

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:47:32AM +0200, Alain Perry wrote: > Le mardi 26 octobre 2004 à 10:39 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > Well, there is this fr_new keymap floating around, which works some, but has > > two remaining problems : > > I'm using this keymap right now under Ubuntu (and usuall

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:08:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > > french

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > french mac user knowledgeable in X fixes it, or enough people bother the X > stri

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Sébastien Mengin
Le lun 25 oct 04 à 23:30, Sven Luther a écrit: > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > french mac user knowledgeable in X fixes it, or enough people bother the X > strike force to ge

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Christian Leimer
Jaonary Rabarisoa wrote: > Hi all, > I've just finish to install debian on my albook 15" :-) . I've used > debian-installer pre-rc2 for this and the installation was successfull. > The only problem is the keyboard under xfree. With the consol, it's all > right. The keyboard behave just as in mac o

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Alain Perry
Le mardi 26 octobre 2004 à 10:39 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > Well, there is this fr_new keymap floating around, which works some, but has > two remaining problems : I'm using this keymap right now under Ubuntu (and usually under Debian). > 1) it refuses to get loaded all by itself when sele

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 06:02:18PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I never fuly understood why you needed to rebuild the xkb module though, nor > > do i really know what should be the right way for it to work in the first > > place

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I never fuly understood why you needed to rebuild the xkb module though, nor > do i really know what should be the right way for it to work in the first > place, never having used a pmac before. I didn't rebuild anything ... One thing I hav

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:40:05AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:30 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > > frenc

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:30 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > the console is not major problem, but this is still utterly broken in X, and > there is very little chance that it gets fixed nextly, unless either some > french mac user knowledgeable in X fixes it, or enough people bother the X > strike for

Re: Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:38:09PM +0200, Jaonary Rabarisoa wrote: > Hi all, > I've just finish to install debian on my albook 15" :-) . I've used > debian-installer pre-rc2 for this and the installation was successfull. > The only problem is the keyboard under xfree. With the consol, it's all > ri

Frech keyboard with xfree

2004-10-25 Thread Jaonary Rabarisoa
Hi all, I've just finish to install debian on my albook 15" :-) . I've used debian-installer pre-rc2 for this and the installation was successfull. The only problem is the keyboard under xfree. With the consol, it's all right. The keyboard behave just as in mac os x. But, under xfree I couldn't get