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bodom_lx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-07-18

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Hp nx6325 with German Keyboard..Xorg configuration problem

Hi there..I´ve got problems when I try to type letters like "íàé" etc..what it prints out is "´i `a ´e"..Letters like "äöü" work fine..
Here is my xorg conf:

Section "InputDevice"       
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "keyboard"
   Option      "CoreKeyboard"
   Option         "XkbLayout" "de"
   Option         "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
   Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Gnome is configured with the same settings (generic 105-key PC,German,Eliminate dead keys).

Thanks a lot!

bodom_lx

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From: Italy

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 6

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Re: Hp nx6325 with German Keyboard..Xorg configuration problem

Found the solution, with xmodmap!
First, type in a terminal

$ xmodmap /opt/gnome/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.de

This will load the right keyboard, but it won't last after a Xorg shutdown.
But Xorg automatically looks for a Xmodmap configuration file in /etc/X11/, and we will create it! After the previous command, simply run (as root)

# xmodmap -pke > /etc/X11/Xmodmap

xmodmap -pke prints the current keymap table (the table that we loaded with the first command), and we redirect the output into a Xmodmap file..

With this method, we don't care about either Gnome or Xorg configuration..
I'm always looking for a solution outside X/Gnome