Hi! On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote: >Hannah Schroeter wrote: >[...]
>>No problem. I set the X11 keyboard layout using X11 means (xorg.conf, >>setxkbmap, xmodmap). I just complained about the *delay* for the initial >>setup from xorg.conf. That delay was introduced around in December 07. >>Before that, the keyboard setup from xorg.conf used to be in effect >>immediately after startup, now, directly after startup, it seems to be >>the keyboard setup taken from wscons, and after about half a minute, it >>suddenly changes to be that from xorg.conf. >Rem: the XlbLayout option in xorg.conf is a list which happens >to only have one member most of the time. >This said, in order to use the keyboard applet under GNOME, I needed >ln -s /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb >might explain some delay? I don't think so. X11 *does* eventually setup the keyboard right, it just has a delay, i.e. it first has the wrong keyboard mapping, later the right one, without any user action. And I do *not* use GNOME or any other "desktop environment". >Keyboard switching is present in XFCE, but only enable the default. >Switching is planned for later versions. I don't use xfce either. I use fvwm2 from ports, but for keyboard switching (rarely needed, usually the initial mapping from xorg.conf plus a few xmodmap settings, once it's active after the initial delay, is ok for me) I use shell scripts involving setxkbmap and re-loading my xmodmap modifications, called either from xterm manually, or from the fvwm2 menu. >Now, fir the VT's, there *must* be a way. >Thinking of thre luit filter, now part of stock xorg. >Luit filters source codeset and dislays target codeset. >Intended for UTF-8 and the UNICODEs, what woud prevent it to translate >US-8859-1 from/to DE-8859-15 ? >Didn't try though. >Stiil convinced there must be easier ways. luit isn't for keyboard mapping, but, as you said, for character encoding. I don't use it (usually doing iso-8859-1 using a non-utf-8 xterm, for the rare instances I need utf-8, I use uxterm, and I nearly never need anything besides those two). Kind regards, Hannah.
