Re: Howto: german keymap for X11

[Benjamin Swatek <bennosdebian@gmx.net>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 16:02, Benjamin Swatek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Great!! 
> Thanks a lot, it works!!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> benjamin
> 
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:57, Claas Langbehn wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 
> > To get the german keymap working with X11, do the following:
> > 
> > 1.) Edit your XF86config-4's InputDevice-Section as follows:
> > 
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> > 	Driver		"keyboard"
> > 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> > 	Option		"LeftAlt"	"Meta"
> > 	Option		"RightAlt"	"Meta"
> > 	Option		"ScrollLock"	"Compose"
> > 	Option		"RightCtl"	"Control"
> > 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
> > 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"de"
> > 	Option		"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > 2.) Apply the attached patch file. It patches 
> > /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 and sets the AppleKey to
> > be AltGr. 
> > 
> > 3.) Restart your X11
> > 
> > 4.) test it:
> > AppleKey + q should give @ now.
> > AppleKey + < gives |
> > Applekey + ß gives \
> > Applekey + + gives ~

Well, Yeah, it still works somehow, but I still can't write accents!
How do I get accents??
I did what christophe suggests on his page, edit the ~/.Xmodmap adding
keycode 108 = Multi_key
and allowed to use this file in gdm but it doesn't work.

any hints?