Re: Keyboard on X with missing keys
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2003 6:38, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On 27 Jul 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 05:06, Thomas Otto wrote:
> > > > > I'm missing the bar sign, the @ sign (I had to paste this one from
> > > > > the address in the header), bracketleft, bracketright, EuroSign and I
> > > > > don't know what else on the keyboard on X.
> > > >
> > > > Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap
> > > > which i load when I login.
> > >
> > > It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no
> > > better myself. :)
> >
> > But where *is* this keymap that will be read at the start of an X session
> > on Debian 3.0. r1 /testing?
>
> Should be /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de. You can make changes to that file
> (make a copy first), and run setxkbmap to get the changes. Run setxkbmap with
> -v 10 to get some output.
I'm not sure whether this file is responsible for a working German keyboard on
X. If I run a diff on the file above from my old "non-working" /etc/X11/xkb
folder against the the new one, this is what I get (complete output)
(Note:
In xkb.old/ below are the files I was using before, which, as it seems didn't
work to give me a usable X keyboard, and in xkb/ below the currently used files
that, as it seems, work here):
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~$ diff -c /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de /etc/X11/xkb.old/symbols/macintosh/de
*** /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/de Thu Jul 31 15:36:36 2003
--- /etc/X11/xkb.old/symbols/macintosh/de Wed Feb 26 09:39:57 2003
***************
*** 1,5 ****
// $XConsortium: de /main/4 1996/08/31 12:19:20 kaleb $
! // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/de,v 3.7.2.2 1999/07/13 07:09:56 hohndel Exp $
// olh@suse.de very close to MacOS map
--- 1,5 ----
// $XConsortium: de /main/4 1996/08/31 12:19:20 kaleb $
! // $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/macintosh/de,v 1.1 2000/09/19 12:46:25 eich Exp $
// olh@suse.de very close to MacOS map
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So I'd guess it might be something else that is changing my keyboard here.
At the moment I leave the keyboard issue as it is, as I have a working keyboard
on X now ... but I might come back to it as soon as I've solved other issues
here (as I said previously: the files in the current xkb directory seem to be
older than the ones I had there before; and the fact that something "works" on a
machine doesn't neccessarily mean that it's right, if I understand correctly ...
:)
Thanks a lot for your time, Frank.
Best Regards,
Wolfgang
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