[Mr. van Grootheest, are you subscribed to debian-x? If so, I apologize for the private copy of this mail.] On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:11:55PM +0100, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote: > I've got a question that I hope someone here can answer. I have this > machine 'joe' that is really only used as an x-terminal. So it's got > almost no packages installed. The only X packages I installed are the > xserver-xfree86 and its dependecies (xserver-common and xfree86-common). > > Since my wife is russian and I'm dutch, I really would like XKB support. > But it appears that one really needs to install xbase-clients to get > that. > > Some more about the setup... quark is the application server and runs > gdm. It also supplies everything else. It is the main machine in the > house. Its XKB support works just fine. Joe starts X from inittab using > '-query quark'. And unless quark is used for W2k for kids games, it works > just great! > > What I would like is to have XKB on joe without all the useless stuff > that's being dragged in by xbase-clients. How do I do that? I don't > think this is an unusual situation, is it? It is fairly uncommon. What you want to do is use "xkbcomp" on a machine that has xbase-clients installed to compile a keymap file corresponding to the desired configuration, and then transfer that .xkm file to the X terminal, where you can use the X server's -xkbmap option to load it. Please see xkbcomp(1x) and Xserver(1x) for more information. -- G. Branden Robinson | America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux | It's too late to work within the branden@debian.org | system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | bastards. -- Claire Wolfe
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