Re: Adding a keyboard to Xfree
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:52:57AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Warning: This might be a packaging issue only.
>
> I developed my own keyboard mapping for XKB (based on my keyboard,
> however I did add a lot of fancy chars that I needed so type spanish,
> italian and other european languages on a regular basis via AltGr+key,
> I could fit in most of latin-9 charset).
>
> To have it work fully, I had to manually edit /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.dir.
> However, this means each upgrade is slightly annoying (asking me wether
> I want to replace .../symbols.dir with the provided version).
>
> I would also like to package my keyboard, to deploy it on a large
> number of computers. The modification of symbols.dir would therefore
> be unpractical and against the Debian packaging rules (no conffile
> should be modified by two packages).
>
> How could I solve this? Any idea?
If this keyboard layout is only used by you, you could run setxkbmap
from $HOME/.xsession, see for instance (in French)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french-0402/msg01539.html
Denis
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