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Re: keyboard mapping problem under X



On Wed,20.May.09, 22:45:23, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> 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

changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf is 
ignored.

> 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.)

Restart hal, at least in theory.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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