On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:52:57AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > Hi! > > Warning: This might be a packaging issue only. > > I developed my own keyboard mapping for XKB (based on my keyboard, > however I did add a lot of fancy chars that I needed so type spanish, > italian and other european languages on a regular basis via AltGr+key, > I could fit in most of latin-9 charset). > > To have it work fully, I had to manually edit /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.dir. > However, this means each upgrade is slightly annoying (asking me wether > I want to replace .../symbols.dir with the provided version). > > I would also like to package my keyboard, to deploy it on a large > number of computers. The modification of symbols.dir would therefore > be unpractical and against the Debian packaging rules (no conffile > should be modified by two packages). > > How could I solve this? Any idea?
If this keyboard layout is only used by you, you could run setxkbmap from $HOME/.xsession, see for instance (in French) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french-0402/msg01539.html Denis