Re: Setting up a danish locale
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 05:07:24PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: For X I have the following in my XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc102 Option XkbLayout dk Erik, Thanks for the pointer. The above partially solved out problem. My colleague would like to use the US keyboard layout and switch to a Danish layout when he's interacting with someone back home. Do you know if this is possible with xmodmap? I'm hoping that I can set up some shell aliases that do setenv do_danish xmodmap danish.keys setenv do_english xmodmap english.keys -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a danish locale
Steve Kargl wrote:
Erik, Thanks for the pointer. The above partially solved
out problem. My colleague would like to use the US keyboard
layout and switch to a Danish layout when he's interacting with
someone back home. Do you know if this is possible with xmodmap?
I'm hoping that I can set up some shell aliases that do
setenv do_danish xmodmap danish.keys
setenv do_english xmodmap english.keys
No, I personally don't like switching keyboard layouts - I want it to be
the keys shown on the actual keyboard I use. It it is a matter of having
the danish characters available and less important where they are, then
it is posible to define meta-keys - If you or your visiting professor
understands german there is an article here:
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/FreeBSD/doc/umlaute/umlaute.html
It seems to cover how to use xmodmap:
xmodmap ${HOME}/.xmodmaprc
- section 2.2.2
I generally stick with the danish keyboard - with exception of
c-circonflex I don't know of any latin character I can't reproduce, so I
haven't tried.
Erik
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Re: Setting up a danish locale
Steve Kargl wrote: Problem: We have a visiting scientist from Denmark, whose laptop died a horrible death. A colleagued asked if I would loan him a currently unused system in my office. I've set up FreeBSD 5.3 on the system and everything appears to work except for setting up a Danish locale. From my rc.conf: The keymap sets the keyboard - doesn't make sense to set it per account I think? The font stuff is for the console. ## ### System console options # ## keymap=danish.iso # keymap in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/* (or NO). font8x16=iso-8x16 # font 8x16 from /usr/share/syscons/fonts/* (or NO). font8x14=iso-8x14 # font 8x14 from /usr/share/syscons/fonts/* (or NO). font8x8=iso-8x8 # font 8x8 from /usr/share/syscons/fonts/* (or NO). Disclaimer: I searched the Handbook, used google, and spent a few hours reading up of login.conf, locale support, etc. But, we are stuck without the danish locale. Yes, it's not trivial, what have bothered me is that some programs seems to have their own overriding settings. I have setup a ~/,login_conf in the user home directory that contains dhcp-78-77:kargl[201] cat .login_conf me:\ :charset=ISO8859-1:\ :lang=da_DK.ISO8859-1: Should you get a future visiting scientist from Denmark, maybe you should create a class in /etc/login.conf, I have: da_DK:Danish users:\ :charset=iso-8859-1:\ :lang=da_DK.ISO8859-1:\ :tc=default: In master.passwd you then set the class for the user to da_DK. Finally, in /etc/ttys you need to select a console that supports latin1 characters instead of plain ascii, cons25l1 is recomended: ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25l1on secure All this stuff is to make the console behave. X has it's own life, I have had things working in X but not on the console - and I guess the oposite is possible too. For X I have the following in my XF86Config: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc102 Option XkbLayout dk I haven't installed anything particular for international support, I think that is only required for non latin based character sets. If you still have problems, you may try and ask in the danish BUG (is it called a BUG??) bsd-dk.dk - don't worry, you can write in english. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Setting up a danish locale
Problem: We have a visiting scientist from Denmark, whose laptop died a horrible death. A colleagued asked if I would loan him a currently unused system in my office. I've set up FreeBSD 5.3 on the system and everything appears to work except for setting up a Danish locale. Disclaimer: I searched the Handbook, used google, and spent a few hours reading up of login.conf, locale support, etc. But, we are stuck without the danish locale. I have setup a ~/,login_conf in the user home directory that contains dhcp-78-77:kargl[201] cat .login_conf me:\ :charset=ISO8859-1:\ :lang=da_DK.ISO8859-1: When we login, we see that the locale is set dhcp-78-77:kargl[202] locale LANG=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_CTYPE=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_COLLATE=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_TIME=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_NUMERIC=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_MONETARY=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=da_DK.ISO8859-1 LC_ALL= But any attempt to enter a danish character in for examples xemacs fails. From my colleagues comment a Right-Alt / o should yield a lower case o with a slash through it. His system is running Xorg 6.7.0_9. I suspect that I need to change/update his xorg.conf file. Any insight into setting up the Danish environment would be appreciate. -- Steve - End forwarded message - -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a danish locale
--On Friday, March 11, 2005 09:21:22 AM -0800 Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But any attempt to enter a danish character in for examples xemacs fails. From my colleagues comment a Right-Alt / o should yield a lower case o with a slash through it. His system is running Xorg 6.7.0_9. I suspect that I need to change/update his xorg.conf file. Any insight into setting up the Danish environment would be appreciate. Just guessing, but did you install /usr/ports/x11-fonts/intlfonts? You may need that for the Danish characters to work right. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up a danish locale
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:30:08AM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, March 11, 2005 09:21:22 AM -0800 Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But any attempt to enter a danish character in for examples xemacs fails. From my colleagues comment a Right-Alt / o should yield a lower case o with a slash through it. His system is running Xorg 6.7.0_9. I suspect that I need to change/update his xorg.conf file. Any insight into setting up the Danish environment would be appreciate. Just guessing, but did you install /usr/ports/x11-fonts/intlfonts? You may need that for the Danish characters to work right. intlfonts is not installed. I'll add those and update xorg.conf. I suspect that I need to update the Keyboard section of xorg.conf to ensure the meta-keys are mapped correctly. -- Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
