Resources and HOWTO set up de_CH on an iBook: http://www.pl-berichte.de/t_system/ibook-debian/part2.html HTH for PBooks as well, Rob
Am Die, den 10.08.2004 schrieb Roland Wegmann um 11:39: > Hello All > > At the moment I try to set up an Alu Powerbook Swiss German Keyboard > Layout in KDE 3.2. In the configuration file XF86config-4 I use the > following settings: > > ----snip > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "Xkbmodel" "macintosh" > Option "XkbLayout" "de_CH" > > ----snip > > But there are a lot of missing swiss german keys in KDE 3.2 (sarge). I > know that I can set a keyboard layout in kde itself using 'Region&.../ > keyboard layout'. But there no macintosh opportunities. Further, I used > the command 'setxkbmap -v -rules xfree86 -model macintosh -layout de_CH', > but this didn't help either (the less bigger key was replaced; still no > èéàöäü...). > > Somewhere I read that KDE does not use XF86Config setting. Is this right? > Therefore I would like to test my X Server setting in another envrionment > than KDE. I installed all x-window packages (aptitude), but I cannot > start another x-window-manager both startx and xdm ends in KDE3.2. > > What do I have to change that I can launch a simple x-window-system that > uses the keyboard definition of XF86Config? > > Where reads KDE 3.2 its keyboard definitions? Until now I only found the > file 'kxkb_groups' (or something like that; at the moment I am in a OSX > environment). > > Kind regards and thanks in advance for helping me > > Roland Wegmann > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >