Re: American keyboard

2006-02-06 Thread Matej Cepl
D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > The effect was short-lived, though, and went away as soon as I switched > back to a KMail window. That was probably because of KDE getting in the > way, I'd guess. I'm back in my normal environment at this moment, and > KDE's language switcher is probably inv

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Sunday 05 February 2006 8:45 pm, Matej Cepl wrote: > *too*!!! you have TWO definitions of keyboard? Can you please post content > of "ServerLayout" section? Nah, that's not what it means. I'm not sure exactly what it does mean, and I'm too lazy to go read the docs. This part of the file is

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread Matej Cepl
D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > The only thing in here that looks interesting to me is > > (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled Try to Google on this string (or Google Groups) -- there are some hits, but I didn't have time to go through all of them. > In this context, and repeated later f

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Sunday 05 February 2006 3:12 pm, Matej Cepl wrote: > What's your version of Debian? If it is not sid, then the things are > slightly different. Do you have anything interesting > in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? I'm running a fairly up-to-date Sid with some miscellaneous packages from Alioth and other

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread Matej Cepl
D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > Well, I flipped it around, "us,es" because Spanish is my "alternate" > keyboard, > but I did try just that. It doesn't seem to have done anything at all. > No > change in keyboard behavior. Even just running an xterm in a simple xinit > session to rule out a

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-05 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Saturday 04 February 2006 9:00 pm, Matej Cepl wrote: >         Option          "XkbOptions"    "compose:caps,ctrl:ctrl_aa,\ > lv3:ralt_switch,grp_led:scroll,grp:shifts_toggle" > EndSection > > (and of course switch off all stuff in KDE Control Center). > > What does it do? Well, I flipped it a

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Matej Cepl
D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > I've never been able to make heads or tails of what the various "Xkb > Options" things do, and/or none of them have ever actually worked. I > never did get the Windows keys working either. The closest I came was > winding up in a state where pressing one of

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Saturday 04 February 2006 2:56 pm, Matej Cepl wrote: > there too) including my preferred "Both Shift keys together change > group" (in short you can imagine group being an equivalent of the different > national layout). Then I just press both SHIFT keys and I have US keyboard > (from the defaul

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Geoff Bagley wrote: > However, when you have a choice of two, as I suppose you do, do you > have to go through the same procedure each time you wish to swap > alphabets ? Of course not -- the point is that you can the "Layout" tab more than one keyboard layout (it would be cz and us in my case)

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Geoff Bagley
Thank you Matej. I tried it the KDE way, and it worked first time. However, when you have a choice of two, as I suppose you do, do you have to go through the same procedure each time you wish to swap alphabets ? Best regards, and thanks to the list. Geoff. Then there is KDE-way. Go to C

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Matej Cepl
Geoff Bagley wrote: > There are indeed packages available to do this, but by editing or > changing individual keys. > Surely there is still a correct UK English locale with the appropriate > keymap still ? > > I wonder how bilingual people get on. Can they switch between differing > alphabets ?

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Geoff Bagley
Hello Theo, Many thanks for the reply. I have two other machines on my system which both started off using Woody, and were later upgraded to Sarge. They both got the correct keymap for my British keyboard. The problem arose when I tried to install Sarge (initially) on a third machine usin

Re: American keyboard

2006-02-04 Thread Theo Schmidt
Geoff Bagley schrieb: ... Although the KDE set-up wizard asked me what language I use, it would only offer American English (in spite of showing a Union Flag). ... Can some-one point me to the appropriate "Fabulous Manual" (as in "Read The") ? The program is called Kxkb (but probably mas

American keyboard

2006-02-03 Thread Geoff Bagley
I have just set up Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Sarge using the DVD off September Linux Magazine. There are a few small details to learn, but I have a problem with the keboard map. Although the KDE set-up wizard asked me what language I use, it would only offer American English (in spite of showi