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Re: XFree86 - Swiss French Keyboard



On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 13:00 +0000, Matthieu Oppliger wrote:
> 
> I've installed (soon...) succesfully Woody on my Beige G3. But, as I have
> a Radeon 7000 (VE) on it, I upgraded to Sarge, to obtain XFree86 4.3.0, to
> get my video card working. Everything's right, but I can't obtain arobase,
> backslash and such special characters : Right Alt doesn't seem to work as
> an AltGr key under X. In console, it does.
> 
> Here is a part of my XF86Config-4 file :
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbKeycodes"	"xfree86"
> 	Option		"XkbTypes"	"macintosh"
> 	Option		"XkbSymbols"	"fr_CH"
> 	Option		"XkbGeometry"	"macintosh"
> 	Option		"LeftAlt"	"Meta"
> 	Option 		"RightAlt"	"AltGr"
> 	Option		"RightCtl"	"Control"
> EndSection

Have you tried

	Option		"XkbOptions" "ralt:mode_switch"

or
	Option		"XkbOptions" "group:switch"

(or the equivalent in the keyboard configuration tool of your desktop
environment)?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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