root wrote on Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:41:54 +0100:
| How can I use a dutch keyboard on my IBM Thinkpad 310 in X11
| It works ok in bare Linux
| Arie Dogterom
|
You have 3 options:
1 - Hack a complete map with xmodmap
2 - Hack a complete map with xkeycaps
3 - Let X honor the default Linux kernel keymap and have it
ignore xmodmap/xkeycaps keymaps
The most easy is 3. If you already have a functional Dutch kernel
keymap, then there is no reason to have X redo it.
The problem with 1 and 2 is that it is not easy to acquire a good
keymap. I have tried various and they all seem to be flawed. A side
point is that Dutch keyboards under Linux are only marginaly used. So
there is probably little enthousiasm the work it all out.
That said, 4.0.x has a solution for option 3:
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
LeftAlt "Meta"
RightAlt "ModeShift"
XkbDisable
EndSection
This will give you the Dutch keymap.
For 4.1.x I just discovered a problem. If you translate the above to
the new XF86Config file format you end up with:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "Keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "LeftAlt" "Meta"
Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift"
Option "XkbDisable"
EndSection
The unmodified keys will now all work. Including dead keys. But alas,
the AltGr key does not work. I suspect it is a bug in 4.1.x. It is so
fresh that I haven't had the chance to post to the X email address for
posting bugs. If I do I will post the results here.
HTH.
Cheers,
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