[Fink-beginners] To use a non-english-american keyboard for xfree86

[Ludwin]

If you work with an anglo-american-like keyboard, there is no need to configure anything... But if you use, as I, a Swiss-French keyboard, or, even more different, a French keyboard, you must do something.

On linux systems (I'm used to them), we use a file named .Xmodmap and place it, with that exact name, is every user's folder, so the keyboard behaves the way we want - and if necessary, we edit it.

I tried to place such a file, exactly the one I had previously used on a Gnu-Linux system, is my user directory.

FIrst, I thought it had not worked. The keyboard was like crazy, I had "5" instead of "y", "back delete" instead of "p", and so on. I thought, first, that it was because Apple X11 was a beta, then I replaced Apple X11 with xfree86 from fink, but the same problem occurred again... Then I deleted the .Xmodmap file and my keyboard started to behave the American way. Better...

Well, I presume that fink also uses a .Xmodmap file, because my .Xmodmap affected the behavior of the keyboard. But there must be some differences, and I'll have either to find a Swiss-French .Xmodmap for fink, or to edit .Xmodmap by myself to get the results I want. Then I'll post the file in a place where everybody can get it if needed...

Well, does anyone know where I could find either the right .Xmodmap file, or information about how to configure it?

Ludwin



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