Re: Configuring a US keyboard with umlauts in sid (hal etc?)

[Howard Eisenberger <howarde@gmx.net>]

On 2009-11-25, Kelly Clowers wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:59, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
>> On 2009-11-23, Frank Küster wrote:
>>
>>> in xorg.conf, I used this definition for my keyboard:
>>>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>  Option  "XkbOptions" "compose:caps,lv3:ralt_switch_multikey,eurosign:e"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>> I do use compose and previously had this line in the "Input Device"
>> Section in my old xorg.conf
>>
>>      Option  "XkbOptions"  "compose:menu"
>>
>> setxkbmap -model evdev -option compose:menu
>>
> In newer versions, you can put stuff like that in /etc/default/console-setup
> or most recently in /etc/default/keyboard  This works on TTYs and X.

I thought the OP said he tried this, but it didn't work. It just
worked for me using XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/console-setup after
I rebooted.

Thanks. Probably easier than the way I was doing it. 

Regards,

Howard E.