Re: keyboard and xdm
Hej,
> Since I am getting started with Debian Linux am still struggling a bit
> with certain configuration problems. The first problem that I hav is
> probably a trivial one. I would like to have kdm start straight after
> booting, rather than xdm. Where do I change this.
> Second, I cannot fully use my swiss-german keyboard. I cannot use the
> special caracters like: ??? or @#|~ etc. Does anyone have any idea?
I solved the issue with the swiss german keyboard by setting it
to use a standard pc-102 keyboard mapping. (which is not precisely
the same as mac; eg. '@' character is placed differently). This
can be done by setting the relevant part in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# Option "LeftAlt" "Meta"
# Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift"
Option "XkbLayout" "de_CH"
EndSection
To make the apple-key behave like AltGr on pc-keyboard (the one
that gives you access to @, # etc), change following lines from
/etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 from ...
<RALT> = 113;
// Microsoft keyboard extra keys
<LWIN> = 115;
... to ...
<RALT> = 115;
// Microsoft keyboard extra keys
<LWIN> = 113;
that works for me, as I'm used to swiss-german pc-keyboards.
If you need a real mac-alike swiss-german setup... can't help :)
However, as we're currently there: setting keyboard layout in
debian configuration for X is not entirely trivial - IIRC it
displays only an inputbox where you are requested to enter your
keyboard layout (where basically I would have entered 'sg'
for swiss german, as it used to be [... ages ago...]). It
would be most convenient to have a list of available choices.
bye
Philipp Kaeser
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