-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: >> >>> >>> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear all >>>>> >>>>> I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the >>>>> best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and >>>>> debian-powerpc). >>>>> >>>>> I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G4. >>>>> I managed to setup my (external/USB) Apple keyboard with a >>>>> Swiss-German keymap. However, I could not figure out how to produce >>>>> an '@' symbol... in Mac OS X I press 'Option-g' to type an '@', but >>>>> that does not work in Linux / Debian. Any hints? >>>> >>>> Umm, did you try the obvious one? >>>> >>>> SHIFT-2 (the 2 above the qwerty keys)? >>> >>> Yes, I did. On the Apple keyboard, Shift-2 is mapped to something else >>> than '@' (propably '"', but I am not sure because at the moment I'm in > > That sounds like a "minimum keyboard", IOW, one which uses the shift > key just to set/clear bits in the ASCII code. Old ADM terminals were > like that. The ADM-1 was, anyway. I don't recall the key now. But > from looking at the ASCII chart, I suggest you try SHIFT-` > (that's SHIFT-GRAVE_ACCENT, which may be below the tilde (~) on > your keyboard). On such keyboards, SHIFT just clears bit 0x20. > > Mike Mike, two comments: 1) You don't need to CC: me, I read the list. 2) I did not write any of the above text. You snipped everything I wrote without marking it being snipped, but still show my name. As for the issue at hand, it seems like a simple reassignment of the keyboard definitions would solve the problem. If Matthias is only interested in fixing the settings in X, then dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver will walk him through the settings for X, including the keyboard setup. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSxAqiXBCVWpc5J4RAryYAJ91IChaQ14+ihX6+kWK+zB51eyKXwCghZkv YYA2sDTolfV/HI88yU+ZoQE= =ENVV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]