Re: Locale and Umlauts again
Em Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:50:26 +0200, J. Preiss escreveu:
> locales was installed, localconf not. After installing, it wanted to overwrite
> the existing files, and I said no (praying this to be a good answer, see
> below).
Then you might just as well not have installed it!
> I do have to reconfigure locales every time I boot, because else I have qwerty
> keyboard layout instead of german (or was it console-common?).
Definetely not.
> Mmmh, but if
> it is the one where I have to chose the files to be generated (deDE-files):
> yes, I did. Often :-D
That would be locales, I think. No need to redo, but please
consider applying localeconf.
>> Unless you disable the XKB extension in
>> /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) the console configurations won’t affect X.
>
> This would be a nice answer, if I only would know if I *want* it to be
> affected... Do I?
Only if you end up having the console configured to your
satisfaction.
> I do not need cyrillic stuff on console, it only would be
> nice to see cyrillic file names.
This has nothing to do with keyboard, it is only a matter of
installing a cyrillic or Unicode font, I guess Unicode is what you
want.
>> What are your XKB configs? Either check the above mentioned
>> config file, or do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86.
> I am a little bit too angry to reconfigure x itself. I'm proud that I see
> something...
>
> I tried my best, but I did not find any hint to xkb. In XFcfg, I would expect
> a load of the module, but there isnt.
I never used XFcfg, I always do dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86 first and then refine it by hand. In any case, XKB
won’t be mentioned explicitly in dpkg-reconfigure, it only asks for
the configuration values themselves.
> But I have kde keyboard switcher activated, with:
>
> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
>
> and
>
> setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout ru -variant basic
>
> With this, alt-gr does not work :-) But pc105 is the correct keyboard, and:
> the Win(tm)-key works and starts the K-Menu. I dont understand anything about
> whats going on here...
I never used KDE, but I do know the Gnome keyboard switcher
gave me some grief.
Another issue is if your pc105 keyboard really does both
layouts. I guess so.
> Just installed it. If it shows me US-101, if that is my default than this
> would be wrong.
No, it is not the default. It is just that xkeycaps really
doesn’t do any choosing for you.
> What will be broken if I let it create a xmodmap?
Nothing. You have to run xmodmap with the created file before
it takes effect.
>> POSIX is just the default.
>
> How can I get back to it????? With the default, I see umlauts on my second pc
> and I even can enter them! But maybe its more broken than LC_*.
That’s what localeconf was for, but you could also edit
/etc/environment, I think.
Don’t touch LC_* unless you *really* know what you’re doing.
LANG and LANGUAGE should be enough for mostly everyone.
>> Not that I know. It is one of the weak points of GNU/Linux,
>> together with desktop printer setup and sound I guess.
>
> Sound is not so bad, until now (knocking on wood) I had no unresolvable
> problems.
Can’t even get this machine to work, and having more than one
X session on the same machine definetely is a headache.
> But, ok, my printer did not print out at least one page on linux
> (no matter what version). Even if I selected the correct driver (Lexmark
> 1000), no test page was printed. Well....
CUPS can be a pain, I am considering going back to lpr-ng.
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