----- "Jan Willem Stumpel" <jstum...@planet.nl> a écrit : > > i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... > > You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For > instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? exactly! and if you ask why: the french layout is completely out of my taste...
> KDE or Gnome have GUI utilities that will make the keyboard do > what you want (i.e. without directly editing system files). > Probably in something called "System, Keyboard". well.... my students call me "dino"... all that graphical stuff isn't really what i fancy, even if iy have to admit that having X running, that allows an impressive number of shells to be opened at the same moment and visible (still use screen though :D) and if i see how much ram that stuff takes that isn't then available to my numerical simulations.... > If (like me) you want to avoid using KDE/Gnome, you can *also* > make the keyboard do what you want. The German keyboard is called > "de". It has several so-called "variants": i tried that in the xorg.conf without result.... > setxkbmap de [-variant <name of variant>] heh, never too old to learn new stuff! that did it! and that's awesome! i directly integrated it into my bashrc that does bypass all those automatisms that don't seem to work at the moment! thanks a lot! > You can use the setxkbmap command to experiment with keyboard > layouts and variants. Once you have selected what you want, you > can put it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the keyboard section, in a > slightly different format, using one line for the keyboard and > another for the variant, e.g.: > > Option "XkbLayout" "de" > Option "XkbVariant" "deadgraveacute" well that's the stuff i tryed and that didn't work... here's the section i tryed: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" EndSection kbd is still on nodeadkeys... but with the solution of setxkbdmap it works fine! -- ciao bboett ============================================================== bbo...@adlp.org http://bboett.free.fr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org