From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 17:21:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D28F37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E402D43E65 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:21:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021006002137.RNJV9928.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 00:21:37 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g960OToS044814; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g960ONmO044811; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 17:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: David Gerard Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting X to recognise a UK keyboard References: <20021005132928.GG32176@thingy.apana.org.au> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 05 Oct 2002 17:24:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20021005132928.GG32176@thingy.apana.org.au> Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gerard writes: > So, what can I do to get it to behave? Short of messing with Xmodmap or > something. I think you're not supposed to need to mess with xmodmap. There's this new XKB thing which you are obviously using. It's configuration has no user-friendly XFree86 documentation, but a couple users have written something about it: http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/ "An Unreliable Guide to XKB Configuration" http://www.tsu.ru/~pascal/en/xkb/ Russo-English, but much better than nothing. local files: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/setxkbmap.1.html /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xkbcomp.1.html /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xkbevd.1.html /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xkbprint.1.html /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/README XKB design specs: http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBproto.pdf http://www.x-docs.org/XKB/XKBlib.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message