Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

[Guillaume Florey <flo.guillaume@edux.ch>]

Hi,
I have got a suisse french keyboard, the special keys works for me like this:
} = fn+alt+$ 
{ = fn+alt+à
] = fn+alt+¨
[ 0 fn+alt+è

I hope its helps...

Greets
Guillaume

PS: here the part of the XF86Config-4
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr_CH"

Le Mercredi, 16 Février 2005 17.28, Charles-Edouard Ruault a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> i've been struggling for a few days tying to have my keyboard mapped
> correctly on my PowerBook Alu G4.
> I'm running debian sid with kernel 2.6.10 and KDE 3.3.2.
> After looking on the web i found some info ( mostly the files located at
> http://www.linux-france.org/ftp/macintosh/kbd-mac-fr.tar.gz ).
> I've applied these recepies but with no success. The keyboard is mostly
> ok but i'm missing some important keys:
> {|}~[] the Euro sign and possibly more.
> My XF86Config-4 section for the keyboard is as follows:
>
> Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver          "keyboard"
> Option          "CoreKeyboard"
> Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
> Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
> Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr_new"
>
> with fr_new installed from the package found above.
>
> Has anyone got  a fully functional keyboard with a configuration like
> mine ?
> Any hint would be greatly appreciated !
> Regards.
>
> --
> Charles-Edouard Ruault