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Re: keyboard-problem


/ Torsten Kalix <tkalix@bredex.de> wrote:
| [...]
| So the X-Server comes up and I can login to the Linux-box Aaron... But
| how can I switch the keyboard settings from US to German? I tried and
| played with some of the parameters, but nothing helped.

You need to tell the server what kind of keyboard you have, by using
"xmodmap [keyboard definition file]".

I don't know if the german keyboard has a AltGr-key, but support for
that key is being worked on at the moment.

Either grab the keyboard definition file from a machine who has it
(linux redhat or similar)(I sent redhats xmodmaps to the list a while
ago I think), or use xkeycaps to create a definition file for your
keyboard.

        /Andy


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