Hi,
question - when you started the installation, did you choose a German
keyboard layout? I'm somewhat new at this as well, and I don't know
dwm, but I've always chosen English as my language and German with no
dead-keys for my keyboard layout and I never had a problem. You can
configure X(-org) for various keyboard layouts, but it may be easier for
you to try a re-installation with de and no dead-keys.
If you do not want to re-install, then you may want to start here:
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/input/XKB-Config.html
http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg
or do a Google search for 'x-org keyboard config debian' where you'll
find more info.
Enjoy,
Robert
On 12/28/2010 11:21 AM, Robert Latest wrote:
Hello all,
recently I re-activated my wife's 8-year-old laptop using debian
stable. The installation went of course quickly and hitch-free as
usual. However, what doesn't work correctly is the keyboard under X.
More precisely, the symbols accessed using the "Alt Gr" key produce
all sorts of characters, but not the much-needed []{}|. This is a
German Medion MD6100 (Aldi) laptop. I tried out several X keyboard
configurations, but they either didn't work at all or just as lousy.
The console (non-X) keyboard works fine.
By the way, I'm delighted about the performance Debian gets out of
this old veteran, even with a fully encrypted harddisk. Of course all
I use as X environment is dwm, I don't want to even think about what
this would look like with a full-blown Gnome or KDE desktop.
Thanks,
robert
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