Re: es keymaps advise needed

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Jaume Teixi wrote:

> with this setup the keyboard is completely unusable:
> 
> >         Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
> >         Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
> >         Option          "XkbLayout"     "es"

What keycodes are you using? If
/proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes contains 0, you are using
ADB keycodes and need to use "XkbModel" "macintosh_old".


> with this setup the keyboard is usable like an american one;
> cannot make accents neither special characters:
> 
> >         Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
> >         Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh/us"
> >         Option          "XkbLayout"     "es"
> 
> the same behaviour with XkbModel setup as macintosh/es

Again, I suspect that Xkb is in fact disabled because "macintosh/us" is no
valid XkbModel. Check the server log.


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