On Thursday 6 Feb 03, Alexander Gottwald writes: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: > > > Hi Tom, > > > > I tried that but got: > > > > $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 > > /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb > > Error: Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) > > Include file "xfree86" ignored > > Abandoning keycodes file "gb" > > Why are still people working with this way? The keyboard is configurable > in the config file /etc/X11/XF86Config. A sample config file can be found > at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2
But how do we use /etc/X11/XF86Config? I don't have one there already. I downloaded your sample, but there was a lot of other stuff besides the keyboard options. Is there a trick to getting it to work? I tried deleting everything in your sample except: Section "InputDevice" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection (I'm trying to use a UK keyboard layout.) Did I delete too much? Note the FAQ (4.5) talks about this, but doesn't say anything about XF86Config. I also have no XF86Config man page. I use /usr/X11R6/bin/startx to start X. Thanks for your help! Regards, David