Re: How to change the defaults for the Xserver without modifiying the xorg.conf directly?

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Bruno Boettcher said:

> in the meantime i played around with the settings-menu of gnome and
> tryed to modify the layout, dead-keys and caps-lock behaviour there, and
> i managed to neutralize the capslock (YEAH!) found out that i have a
> "compose" functionality to generate the accented chars on a german kbd
> (at least my french friends will stop yelling at me for not writing our
> the accents) but the compose is still less fast than dead-keys....
> 
> despite the fact of having changed the kbd layout to german, instead of
> german-nodeadkeys, i still haven't any deadkeys available....
> 
> ah and strange part, the xorg file changed! the keyboard part vanished
> from the conf file.... so if someone has a hint on how to get the
> dead-keys working....

I'm using xkb. Dump the original keymap with:

  xkbcomp $DISPLAY layout.xkb

Edit to taste. Then recompile and replace with:

  xkbcomp layout.xkb $DISPLAY

Might work for you.

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Best,
Marc