Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Bruno Boettcher wrote:

> kbd is still on nodeadkeys...

It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now
something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a
system with evdev, type

setxkbmap -print

and see if evdev is mentioned.

If it is, it seems that at the moment, to change the behaviour of
the keyboard, you must specify things not only in
etc/X11/xorg.conf, but *also* in /etc/default/console-setup. And
then you must reboot! Stopping and restarting X is NOT enough.
(There must be a better way though; I am going to investigate
this, because obviously my "international keyboards and fonts"
page needs serious updating.)

Regards, Jan