Re: keymaps

[Benjamin Swatek <bennosdebian@gmx.net>]

Sorry, I don't get it!
I have a keymap "ibook2-de-latin1" of which i thought it might help me
to get a working alt and/or apple key,anything that lets me have these
][{}@\ etc. signs by holding down the alt or the apple key so i don't
loose the special german characters, and enables me to write accents.

So this mentioned keymap wanted form me the files I mentioned before,
thats why I asked for them. 
Now I changed the references or includes or links or what they ar called
in the keymap to the ones you pointed out.
Now I can load the keymap, but I lost the special german characters and
still can't write accents.
What can i do to get a de-keyboard that uses the alt or the apple key to
produce special-characters like @{}[]\ etc.
And how do I get this for both, console and X ?
The best would be if the keyboard or what it produces acts like in
macOS, just changing the apple to the ctrl key of course.
I mean i don't mind using ctrl+Q to quit instead of apple+Q  like in
macOS.

by the way, I have no problem switching consoles with alt+fn+Fx or with
alt+ctrl+fn+Fx in X

Cheers
benjamin
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 15:19, Frank Murphy wrote:
> 
> Most of these files should already be in /usr/share/keymaps/i386 as part of 
> the console-data package. It's odd that they're in i386, but it's because the 
> ppc kernel is now using the "default" linux keycodes (and we all know that 
> "default linux" = i386 :)
> 
> The mac-usb-qwertz-layout is identical to qwertz-layout. (It's just the 
> alphabet keys, after all.)
> 
> It and mac-linux-keys-bare.inc are in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include (and 
> they're gz compressed).
> 
> mac-usb-euro.kmap is in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty, but it should be 
> deleted. Use /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/euro.inc.gz instead. There's 
> lots of these problems with the mac-usb-* keymaps.
> 
> Then again, there's /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/fr_CH-latin1.kmap.gz, which 
> should be the same as for Swiss German (and Swiss Italian, too, I think.) 
> These should probably all be symbolic links to each other. The French here in 
> Switzerland type french with a German keyboard.
> 
> Let me know if any of these work for you. I am interested in fixing these 
> keymaps over time. Especially check that you can switch from the Linux 
> console to X by using <ctrl>-<option>-<F7> and <ctrl>-<option>-<F1> as that 
> was a problem for Woody and US keymaps.
> 
> Also, these fixes are only in the console, not in X.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On Thursday 10 April 2003 3:04, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> > Benjamin Swatek wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >I'm still trying to get my keyboard working, can someone mail me please
> > >the following files or point me out where to download them:
> > >
> > >mac-usb-qwertz-layout
> > >mac-linux-keys-bare.inc
> > >mac-usb-euro.kmap
> > >
> > >or point me out in dummy style how to get the keyboard of my TiBook
> > >working in german layout.
> > >all i found so far on the web didn't work out, don't know if I'm just
> > >too stupid or what ever.
> >
> > Well yes, this is indeed a very interesting question: I was (and still
> > am) looking for a the Swiss-German Keyboard for about two days for my
> > Tibook but did not find anything so far. At the moment I am using the
> > qwertz with PC-Layout, so I get the | @ ~ etc. signs.
> >
> > Have you tried 'kbdconfig' as root. That helped me.
> >
> > Let me know what you hear.
> >
> > Thx.
> >
> > Zeno
> 
> 
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