setting the keyboard in X

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hi all,

I am having a strange problem with X and a hebrew keyboard.

I recently began to have a look at gnome2 (Debian/Sid). While it has some nice features, I am having a slight problem with switching the keyboard to Hebrew mode.

I have added the small applet, and added a Hebrew keyboard with "Hebrew xkb keymap" (the other one didn't work at all). When I switch to it, and type hebrew, however, I get English characters.

Running xmodmap reveals that the Hebrew characters are located on the alternate location. Sure enough, pressing the right alt while typing produces Hebrew characters.

Can anyone please help me out regarding what is going on here? That used to work (admitably, not in gnome). Did they make some trick to have the alt keyboard active? Why is that trick not working now? How can I make it work again?

Shachar


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