Re: German Keymap for XFree on sid

[Michael Flaig <mflaig@uni.de>]

EMail from Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> to Falk Stern <falk@richtig.net> with message <[🔎] 3B8A9E61.800A3145@iiic.ethz.ch>
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:24:17 +0200 Michel Dänzer wrote:

> Falk Stern wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
> > 
> > > >>>>Has anyone a hint how to get crucial things like the "pipe" or an "at"
> > > >>>>on XFree? (or a working german keymap)
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>   Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
> > > >>>   Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
> > > >>>   Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
> > > >
> > > > Didn't work.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>>dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 and selecting XkbModel macintosh
> > > >>>might be enough.
> > > >>>
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, no. Didn't work either.
> > >
> > > How does it fail? Are you really using Linux keycodes?
> > 
> > The "Apple/Clover/whatsoever" key shows up as "Meta_L" using "xev"..
> 
> What would you want it to be? "Alt_L"? Have you tried the key labelled
> alt/option?

Hi Michel,

The Problem is that Alt_L isnt doing what it should do.
When I hold down Alt_L or the Alt / Option Key and press Q  then q is printed out and not "at"

> 
> If the map doesn't suit you, use xmodmap(1x).

dont know how to fix this problem ...

do you ?

thanks,


michael
> 
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