Re: ibook2 french keyboard under X

[<eric.s.cote@sympatico.ca>]

on 01/03/2002 08:03, Lionel Bringuier at lb@fr.netcentrex.net wrote:

> Hi Eric.
> 
> I had the same problem as you (* "Pas facile tous les jours d'être français
> ;)" *).

Ça, c'est sûr mon pote :).

> To enable those keys, I downloaded kbd-mac-fr.tar.gz and from
> http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_rpm3.html
> and installed mac-fr-ext_new.kmap.gz as indicated on the web page.
> 
> Then I had to put the following line in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :

Alors il y a un installeur dans l'archive j'assume? I don't have to worry
about putting the keymap in the right place? BTW, do you have your delete
and backspace keys working alright? My backspace (back delete) is acting
like delete (forward delete), and it's a pain.... Also, my keyboard either
in X or linux console uses the us keyboard; I keep ahving to remind myself
of where the slash and single quote keys are. and confusing the hell out of
me. (sorry for the language). Is "pipe" this => | ?

Thanks for the tip.

blabber mouth eric c. ;-)
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> (...)
> Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> Option "XkbLayout" "fr_new"
> Endsection
> 
> Thus, I can have backslash, tilde and pipe by pressing at once [shift][alt]
> and respectively /, N and L on my Ibook2/Woody.