Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:37:02 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with belgian keyboard in X Message-ID: <200403290037.02660.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20040327102008.GA7085@laptop.lori.mine.nu> References: <20040327102008.GA7085@laptop.lori.mine.nu>
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On Saturday 27 March 2004 20:50, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Hi, > > I installed FreeBSD on a machine with a Belgian (azerty) keyboard. It > works fine in console, but not in X: all keys are mapped correctly, exc= ept > for the "<>\" key. I have keymap=3D"be.iso" in rc.conf and Option > "XkbLayout" "be" both in XF86Config X0-Config.keyboard. I've tried sev= eral > variants to the "be" keyboard layout (iso, deadkeys, ...) but none of t= hem > maps the < > \ key correctly. > I believe the keyboard interpretation is defined in the files: /etc/X11/xkb/... or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/... dependent on the particular version of X you're running (or they may be lisked to the same set of files. I think symbols/be may be the particular file of interest in your case. But I don't know or understand the syntax; so I'd take an easier approach= and=20 patch the key mapping using xmodmap in each users X login script. Take a look at the manual page xmodmap(1). Malcolm
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