Package: xkb-data Version: 0.9-4 Severity: normal Previously, I was using XOrg backports (6.9.0.dfsg.1-6~bpo.4) on a sarge system, and I had written my own variant of a US keyboard layout appropriate for typing lots of german text. In this version, it was possible to add new files in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.
Now files in this directory seem to no longer be read (I'm not 100% sure that I use the correct command): (528)[10:00:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ us_DE us_intl (529)[10:01:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -o xkb.trace2 setxkbmap \ -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout us_DE -variant intl \ -option "compose:caps" Error loading new keyboard description (530)[10:01:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ The trace shows that it does not at all access files in the symbols directory, neither below /etc nor /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. The documentation in /usr/share/doc/xkb-data/README.config.gz also hints (although unclear IMHO) that using xkb files is obsolete (though still supported). Well, it also says that the new method is supposed to be far more flexible and intuitive, but I do not agree, at least not without any hint how to switch single keys. In particular (just to illustrate), I want the following changes from the standard intl variant of the us layout: - make ~, " and ' not deadkeys - move ü from y+Mod3 (AltGr) to u+Mod3, similar for ö, and ä - Provide § also on p+Mod3 (it's called "Paragraph" in german) TIA, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)