Re: Searching for X11-Keymap german ...
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:25:30PM +0000, Hadess wrote:
> Michael Flaig wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook Firewire.
>
> There are 2 things that we would need to know to be able to give you a
> proper keymap:
> - the version of the kernel, the new input layer appeared in 2.2.17
> (AFAIK) with some guest appearances in the previous ones.
> - the version of X, you probably run X4
Ok ok ...
I´m running woody ... updated today ... xfree86-common is 4.01 nut the Server
is still 3.3.6 .
>
> OK, so if you run a kernel > 2.2.17 and X4, you can use PC keymaps, in
> fact you should *avoid* mac keymaps...
I´m running the default kernel of the official debian ppc potato
>
> > Has anybody a @ with default keymap?
>
> I have the default US keymap, on a UK kbd, but that's probably not the
> thing you wanted to hear =P
>
> > I don't understand the X11 keymap concept ...
>
> Each key of your keyboard corresponds a keycode, then you will map each
> key to an "action", for example: on my kbd, 0x41, the action is
> Caps_Lock. X (every version) also tries to grab the configuration from
> the console, with some versions doing better than others...
this is like console keymap ... i made one for my keyboard.
And I´ve now disabled xkb and perhaps i get the keymap work with Xmodmap
But I found no manpages to Xmodmap ...:(
>
> Type "xmodmap -pk | less" to see the current keytable.
>
ok ... thanks ... :)
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Michael Flaig ... PROLinux
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