Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 17 February 2005 12:07, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > > I've digged around once more in the options > of KDE and found promising options in the "Keyboard Shortcuts, Modifier > Keys" of the Control center. > There's a "Macintosh keyboard" option and a "MacOS-style modifier usage" > How

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On Friday 18 February 2005 12:51, Bruno Beaufils wrote: > >! I tailored it a little bit in order to get : >... >! - a delete key on Apple key with Fn key (fn apple). In 2.6 kernels, fn-Delete generates Delete. (Delete generates Backspace as expected.) Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-20 Thread Frank Murphy
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 11:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I've spent hours in xkb trying to get that right (I also have a french > keyboard) and never got it 100%... > > The problem is that you can't really have the "option/alt" key be both > used for

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Kristian Peters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.02.2005 um 11:56 schrieb Charles-Edouard Ruault: you can try the Xmodmap file that Bruno sent me. It works like a charm on KDE for my French keyboard. I was getting desperate to have a decent keyboard ! I'm attaching the file. Yes that help

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:51:05AM +0100, Bruno Beaufils wrote: > > I had got the same problem with either my old TiBook and my new AlBook (the > one with ATI 9600 graphic card). > > My solution was to bypass all those new stuff not well documented (XKB) > and use plain old Xmodmap. Actually, if

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
er distributions ? Could be interesting how for example Yellow Dog or Ubuntu handle this problem... Maybe X.org has an improved keyboard-layout ? PS: Please CC me. *Kristian Hi Kristian, you can try the Xmodmap file that Bruno sent me. It works like a charm on KDE for my French keyboard. I was gett

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Kristian Peters
Charles-Edouard Ruault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > thanks for the reply, however i had no luck with your keymap either > Still the same behaviour :( Add a "me too". I tried a lot of things. Nothing worked properly. Does anybody know about other distributions ? Could be interesting how for

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-18 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Bruno Beaufils wrote: I had got the same problem with either my old TiBook and my new AlBook (the one with ATI 9600 graphic card). My solution was to bypass all those new stuff not well documented (XKB) and use plain old Xmodmap. I create a customized version of an Xmodmap file and load it as X s

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Bruno Beaufils
0 43 41 73 -- CNRS CA : http://igc.services.cnrs.fr/CNRS-Standard/recherche.html CRU CA : http://igc.cru.fr/cgi-bin/viewca == ! ! This Xmodmap works with most of the keys on my AlBook with French keyboard ! layout. ! ! Installing

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
ion for the keyboard is as follows: .../... I've spent hours in xkb trying to get that right (I also have a french keyboard) and never got it 100%... The problem is that you can't really have the "option/alt" key be both used for the |,{,},... combos, _and_ be the real Al

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: Hi All, i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. After looking on the web i found som

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-17 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Hi Julien, thanks for the reply. I've just tried your settings without much success :( I believe it's due to KDE. I've digged around once more in the options of KDE and found promising options in the "Keyboard Shortcuts, Modifier Keys" of the Control center. There's a "Macintosh keyboard" option

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Julien PERVILLE
Le jeudi 17 février 2005 à 09:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 17:28 +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped > > correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. > > I'm running debian sid wit

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
. > My XF86Config-4 section for the keyboard is as follows: .../... I've spent hours in xkb trying to get that right (I also have a french keyboard) and never got it 100%... The problem is that you can't really have the "option/alt" key be both used for the |,{,},... combos, _

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > Hi All, > > i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped > correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. > I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. > After looking on the web i found some info (

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Guillaume Florey
Hi, I have got a suisse french keyboard, the special keys works for me like this: } = fn+alt+$ { = fn+alt+à ] = fn+alt+¨ [ 0 fn+alt+è I hope its helps... Greets Guillaume PS: here the part of the XF86Config-4 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard&

French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

2005-02-16 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Hi All, i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4. I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2. After looking on the web i found some info ( mostly the files located at http://www.linux-france.org/ftp/macintosh/kbd-mac-fr.tar

RE : Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard

2004-08-11 Thread Matthieu Oppliger
ill use it ! Thank you ! Matthieu >-- Message original-- >From: Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard >Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:14:42 +0200 >To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > >Ciao Matthieu Oppliger, nel tuo messaggio dice

RE : Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard

2004-08-11 Thread Matthieu Oppliger
Thank you for your answer ! >Have you tried > > Option "XkbOptions" "ralt:mode_switch" > >or > Option "XkbOptions" "group:switch" Yes, I did, it doesn't work :-( >(or the equivalent in the keyboard configuration tool of your desktop >environment)? I use WindowMaker,

Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard

2004-08-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 13:00 +, Matthieu Oppliger wrote: > > I've installed (soon...) succesfully Woody on my Beige G3. But, as I have > a Radeon 7000 (VE) on it, I upgraded to Sarge, to obtain XFree86 4.3.0, to > get my video card working. Everything's right, but I can't obtain arobase, > back

Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard

2004-08-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:14:42PM +0200, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Matthieu Oppliger, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > Any hint ? Does someone had the same or such problem ? > > Create in the home directories a .Xmodmap file in which you write: > > keycode 115 = Mode_switch > > and if you u

Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard

2004-08-11 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Matthieu Oppliger, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Any hint ? Does someone had the same or such problem ? Create in the home directories a .Xmodmap file in which you write: keycode 115 = Mode_switch and if you use gdm create a file named /etc/X11/Xsession.options in which you'll write: allow-

XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard

2004-08-11 Thread Matthieu Oppliger
Hello ! I've installed (soon...) succesfully Woody on my Beige G3. But, as I have a Radeon 7000 (VE) on it, I upgraded to Sarge, to obtain XFree86 4.3.0, to get my video card working. Everything's right, but I can't obtain arobase, backslash and such special characters : Right Alt doesn't seem to

Swiss-French Keyboard - Modifier Keys

2004-07-31 Thread matthieu . linux
Hello ! I have a G3 Beige with an Apple Design Keyboard. My version of XFree is 4.3.0, so I don't use Xmodmap, as recommended in The XKB Configuration guide of XFree86 4.3.0. I could modify my XF86Config-4 file as following, to obtain the right mapping of my keyboard : Section "InputDevice"

Re: HFS+ rw and french keyboard under X

2004-02-26 Thread mike dentifrice
Le Sensei... a dit: > On another problem, I can't seem to be able to produce keys like a ~ > or a | under X11... and this is beginning to be a problem... Coming from the x86 world, I have to admit switching from one keyb to the other was a real pain in the ass. Not only ~ and | aren't easily avai

Re: HFS+ rw and french keyboard under X

2004-02-26 Thread Le Sensei...
And I am now a bit more ashamed of myself... Some googling helped me find a workaround (not really a solution) to this problem using the hpmount from the hfsplus package. It was posted in January on the list, and though I was already subscribed, I didn't remember it... Sorry for the noise, and than

Re: HFS+ rw and french keyboard under X

2004-02-26 Thread Le Sensei...
> Just a guess here: perhaps you are using a HFS+ partition with > journalling enabled? I don't know if the hfsplus driver copes correctly > with journalled filesystems (or if it copes with journalling at all). > > But I don't know which kernel you are using. I don't know, OTOH, if > kernel 2.6

Re: HFS+ rw and french keyboard under X

2004-02-25 Thread Rogério Brito
Le Sensei... wrote: I recently encountered a little problem with my PB while trying to mount the OSX partition. When I do so, the kernel tells me my hfsplus partition was not cleanly unmounted, and I should run fsck.hfsplus on it. Of course, I don't have any binary called like that on my HD, bu

HFS+ rw and french keyboard under X

2004-02-25 Thread Le Sensei...
Hi list ! I recently encountered a little problem with my PB while trying to mount the OSX partition. When I do so, the kernel tells me my hfsplus partition was not cleanly unmounted, and I should run fsck.hfsplus on it. Of course, I don't have any binary called like that on my HD, but when I t

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-14 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Serge Basterot wrote: > This is my XF86Config-4 on an ibook with "fr_new", from the link I gave > to you in another post : Please notice the difference between the words "Finnish" and "French". :) -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-14 Thread Serge Basterot
Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : This is my XF86Config-4 on an ibook with "fr_new", from the link I gave to you in another post : Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-14 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Then it appears that X has a bug, while console-tools correctly supports > > this early iMac CRT keyboard (the original narrow keyboard, before the Pro > > model). > > After you've configured X (with `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86`), what > does >

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-14 Thread Frank Murphy
> Then it appears that X has a bug, while console-tools correctly supports > this early iMac CRT keyboard (the original narrow keyboard, before the Pro > model). After you've configured X (with `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86`), what does the Keyboard InputDevice section in /etc/X11/XF86Config

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-13 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 3:10, Jacques Kern wrote: > > I was unable to find how to configure a french keyboard correctly. > > Are you trying to get it working in X or on the console? The two methods are > different. > > F

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-13 Thread Frank Murphy
On Thursday 12 June 2003 3:10, Jacques Kern wrote: > I was unable to find how to configure a french keyboard correctly. Are you trying to get it working in X or on the console? The two methods are different. For the console, do `dpkg-reconfigure console-data` and select the keyboard you th

Re: french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-11 Thread Serge Basterot
Jacques Kern a écrit : > Hi all, > > I run woody on a Powerbook G3 Pismo. > > I was unable to find how to configure a french keyboard correctly. > I have configured it so as it is a 'azerty' (french) keyboard, but I miss > some important keys like | , [ , ] , {

french keyboard on Pismo

2003-06-11 Thread Jacques Kern
Hi all, I run woody on a Powerbook G3 Pismo. I was unable to find how to configure a french keyboard correctly. I have configured it so as it is a 'azerty' (french) keyboard, but I miss some important keys like | , [ , ] , { , } ,and so on... (I wrote this mail from my windows box in o

Problems with Mozilla and my tibook french keyboard ...

2003-04-29 Thread Bruno BEAUFILS
nted on keys, I have to use some specials keymaps. The problem seems just to arise with Mozilla ... :-( Any ideas ? ---8<- I use an Apple Powerbook G4 1Ghz with Superdrive with a french keyboard I use a Debian sid ins

Re: french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Le ven 21/02/2003 à 05:09, Chris Tillman a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Eric Boese-Wolf wrote: > > Just download the package you used before. > > dpkg -e console-data-.deb . > > then copy the stuff you need, where you need it ;) > > > > If think it will go from ./usr/share/k

Re: french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Eric Boese-Wolf wrote: > Just download the package you used before. > dpkg -e console-data-.deb . > then copy the stuff you need, where you need it ;) > > If think it will go from ./usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah to > /usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah use inst

Re: french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Boese-Wolf
Just download the package you used before. dpkg -e console-data-.deb . then copy the stuff you need, where you need it ;) If think it will go from ./usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah to /usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah use install-keymap to load it and copy it to /etc/console-data/bootkeymap.ffasd.gz or

french keyboard for pwb/testing

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Hi all, I upgraded from woody to testing, and therefore I lost my special chars on the french powerbook keyboard. Is there some repository to load a keyboard 'azerty' with common symbols such as tilde, pipe, braces... ? or do I have to rebuild my own keymap ? Tkx -- Jean-Christophe Michel [EMAI

Re: French keyboard on X

2002-03-24 Thread eric cote
On 2002.03.22 11:40 Francois Taiani wrote: Hi Jean-Phillipe, french keyboards are a bit of a hack with Linux PPC, but fortunately some resources exist on the web (See for instance [1-3]). this is great (I know that you are't speaking to me, but see following)! I don't know if you are famil

Re: French keyboard on X

2002-03-22 Thread Francois Taiani
Hi Jean-Phillipe, french keyboards are a bit of a hack with Linux PPC, but fortunately some resources exist on the web (See for instance [1-3]). Basically you need to correctly configure the files /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/macintosh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr so that t

French keyboard on X

2002-03-22 Thread Jean-Philippe FASSINO
Hello, I have problem on debian sid, debian kernel 2.4.16 and X 4.1. I cannot hit composed char like pipe and braket, etc. But all work well on console. Does anyone solve this problem ?? Thanks JP

Re: ibook2 french keyboard under X

2002-03-05 Thread Eric Lemoine
> I had the same problem as you (* "Pas facile tous les jours d'être français > ;)" *). To enable those keys, I downloaded kbd-mac-fr.tar.gz and from > http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_rpm3.html > and installed mac-fr-ext_new.kmap.gz as indicated on the web page. > > Then I had to put

Re: ibook2 french keyboard under X

2002-03-01 Thread eric.s.cote
on 01/03/2002 08:03, Lionel Bringuier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Eric. > > I had the same problem as you (* "Pas facile tous les jours d'être français > ;)" *). Ça, c'est sûr mon pote :). > To enable those keys, I downloaded kbd-mac-fr.tar.gz and from > http://www.linux-france.org/macinto

Re: ibook2 french keyboard under X

2002-03-01 Thread Lionel Bringuier
Hi Eric. I had the same problem as you (* "Pas facile tous les jours d'être français ;)" *). To enable those keys, I downloaded kbd-mac-fr.tar.gz and from http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_rpm3.html and installed mac-fr-ext_new.kmap.gz as indicated on the web page. Then I had to put t

ibook2 french keyboard under X

2002-02-27 Thread Eric Lemoine
Hi folks I'm very new to this list and so hope my question well matches the topics of the list. I dont manage getting certain symbols (backslash, tilde et possibly others) on my ibook2/debian/woody under Xfree4. I can get those symbols on the console though. Did anyone encounter this problem

Re: French Keyboard

2001-05-29 Thread Frederic de ZORZI
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean-michel jim jm daix) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Sorry , I¹m French ! > > I have download the non-us Debian CD 1 and choose to use the French Keyboard > (EXT2) during the install. > > Well, my problem is that it seems that th

Re: French Keyboard

2001-05-29 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Mon, 28 May 2001, jean-michel jim jm daix wrote: > Sorry , I¹m French ! ca arrive a des gens tres bien ... ;-)) > > Well, my problem is that it seems that the map of the keyboard is wrong. > It¹s ok, it¹s AZERTY instead of QWERTY but the french Q give me à A too. > I¹ve got 2 [A] and no [Q], a

French Keyboard

2001-05-28 Thread jean-michel jim jm daix
Sorry , I¹m French ! I have download the non-us Debian CD 1 and choose to use the French Keyboard (EXT2) during the install. Well, my problem is that it seems that the map of the keyboard is wrong. It¹s ok, it¹s AZERTY instead of QWERTY but the french Q give me à A too. I¹ve got 2 [A] and no [Q

Re: french keyboard missing | and \

2001-04-12 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Bruno Waes wrote: > euhm, any solution for the french (belgian) keyboard that doesnt have a | or > \ character on the keyboard ? > or would i have to look out for a new keyb see http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac/#clavier> Eric -- JdC>Ah non je ne

french keyboard missing | and \

2001-04-12 Thread Bruno Waes
euhm, any solution for the french (belgian) keyboard that doesnt have a | or \ character on the keyboard ? or would i have to look out for a new keyb bruno

Re: A pb w/ french keyboard on iBook fixed

2001-02-02 Thread Bertrand Sereno
Hi and thanks for the tip, > As I found nuttin' about it in the archives, I thought it might interest > some people... Just for your info, some people are doing a great job at providing french keyboard maps for several linux distributions. You can get the latest version here: http:

A pb w/ french keyboard on iBook fixed

2001-02-02 Thread Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
Hi all, I had a problem with the french keyboard mapping of my iBook, not the reported problem during installation, but a pb after doing kbdconfig. I got a "a" when I typed "q" (so I had 2 "a" and no way to quit...) I fixed this by editing mac-fr3-kmap, I replaced