Re: American keyboard

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

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 them would freeze my kernel.

If you have updated sid, then try to use this in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "es,us"
        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?

Matej

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