Re: French keyboard on X

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

On 2002.03.22 11:40 Francois Taiani wrote:
> Hi Jean-Phillipe,
>
> french keyboards are a bit of a hack with Linux PPC, but fortunately 
> some resources exist on the web (See for instance [1-3]).

this is great (I know that you are't speaking to me, but see 
following)! I don't know if you are familiar with canadian keyboards, 
but it is a modified keyboard with some keys allocated to accents and 
such. I have made an xmodmap that was hacked using an utility (xxkb?, 
or something) of a keyboard corresponding to the apple design keyboard 
(ADB) made for the CSA standard (a standard called 
CAN/CSA-Z243.200-92). It is basically a bilingual (fr/en) keyboard. Are 
the layouts you have below layed out AZERTY, which IIRC is the usual 
layout in France?

regardless, thanks for the info.

eric

> Basically you need to correctly configure the files 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keycodes/macintosh 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr so that the 2 stage 
> mapping between the keycodes produced by your keyboard, and the 
> symbols actually received by your X application works. (more 
> technical explanations in [2])
>
> From your problem description I guess that your modifier keys (Meta, 
> Apple, ...) are not correctly configured in the symbol file 'fr'. 
> (That correspond to the 'modifier_map' lines in that file.)
>
> I had to struglle a bit myself to get it works (I'm using kernel 
> 2.4.16 and XFree 4.1.0.1). The config files I found on the net did 
> not perfectly work on my keyboard, but it finally did with some minor 
> modifications.
>
> I send you my own personal versions of the keycodes (file 
> "macintosh") and the symbol files (file "fr"). Maybe they'll directly 
> solve your problem.
>
> I case they don't, I'll be happy to help you any further. (In 
> particular, the 'xev' utility was very useful to me to track what was 
> going on in the mapping process.)
>
> Bon courage !
>
> Francois
>
> [1] http://www.mire.net/cl/LinuxPPC-FR.html
> [2] http://webperso.easynet.fr/~eherlent/tc/cfl-lisez-moi.txt
> [3] http://webperso.easynet.fr/~eherlent/linuxmac_clavier.html
>
> Jean-Philippe FASSINO wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have problem on debian sid, debian kernel 2.4.16 and X 4.1.
> > I cannot hit composed char like pipe and  braket, etc.
> > But all work well on console.
> > Does anyone solve this problem ??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > JP
>
> // $Xorg: fr,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:42 cpqbld Exp $
>
>
>
>
> // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/fr,v 3.5 2000/10/27 18:31:09
> dawes Exp $

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