Re: Debian on Slow laptops. What setup is best?
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:41:53 +0300
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:23:27 +0200
> Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:05:26 +0300
> > Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:22:40 +0200
> > > Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:54:12 -0600
> > > > Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <jevv.cr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just keep in mind also fluxbox for your wm trials, its light
> > > > > and
>
> [...]
>
> > > possible to switch from the command line using xmodmap (which you
> > > can always attach in your setup files to some keys)
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I tried what you wrote, and it works like a charm, like you said,
> > except I cannot use it for my tasts for some reason. As you may
> > know, Japanese has weird characters, and when I put ja,hu in my
> > keymap like you did with (us,il), and I boot up, my Japanese one
> > writes characters that arent roman letters, but Japanese Katakana
> > letters . WHen I change to the other one, Hungarian, it works great.
> > I press the two shift keys, and the light comes up and all. Just the
> > default Japanese is messed up. When I have only the "ja" in my
> > keymap, then it comes up with Roman alphabet, just the layout is
> > Japanese, and I need that because my laptop has the Japanese
> > keyboard, with roman letters, but things like @ sign are in a
> > different place compare to US keymap, so I use the Japanese.
> >
> > So my question is, would you happen to know, that when I have only
> > "ja" defined, why it works, and when I have "ja,hu" defined, why the
> > Japanese starts to show Japanese characters instead of roman
> > characters?
> >
>
> Afraid I don't know. I had a look under /etc/X11/xkb/symbols and it
> seems I have two japanese keyboards one called jp and one pc/jp. The
> first has english letters as regular letters and letters starting kana
> for the second (third level I think) keyboardm the other has only the
> kana version. seems like a different keymap is chosen depending on
> what you enter, not sure why.
>
> you could try backing up /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ja (or jp as it is
> here) and copying /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ja over it and see if that
> works. If it does then it gives a direction for further exploring, if
> not we will have to try something else (if it works just remember what
> you did as it will be erased with the next X upgrade).
Hey, thanks. Works like a charm. I got my original Latin characters
back, and I am able to type Hungarian ,and of course I am still able to
type Japanese, with kinput-2 and the weird locales I had to set up. So
now my lappy has a 3 layout input. That is pretty amazing, thanks again.
Ben
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben
> > >
> > > >
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