Re: Need your input for keymap configuration
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>!
wrote about "Re: Need your input for keymap configuration":
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > I seem to remember some stuff about X using the same keymap as the
> > console, but i am not sure anymore about it. I did not do any config
> > file editing when i installed X and it took my azerty keymap without
> > major trouble (just the Delete/BackSpace stuff, but i guess it is not
> > keymaps related). But then it was a long time ago.
> If you don't use XKB, XFree86 queries the kernel for the current keymap
> (it traverses all keycodes and modifiers and asks for their mapping).
> Hence the keymap will automagically be correct (assumed it's correct in
> the console).
But it seems to fail for Alt-Keys. They are allways the same Key under X,
wether this is true for console or not. I don't remeber exactly, what
happens, but this made me write my own amiga(de) XKB files.
> That's one reason to not use XKB :-)
Well, it works. Whoever wants to try it can find it at:
http://www.eikon.tum.de/~elanol/linux.html
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