Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 19:45:50 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.09.17 08:48, Peter Smith wrote: > > P.S.: I actually was able to change the keyboard layout later on by > > the Gnome Tweak tool, but nevertheless I do not unterstand why the > > official information does not work and it

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-16 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.09.17 08:48, Peter Smith wrote: > P.S.: I actually was able to change the keyboard layout later on by > the Gnome Tweak tool, but nevertheless I do not unterstand why the > official information does not work and it should be rectified. It is depressing to see the linux community succumb to

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread James Montgomery
On 2017-09-15 10:03, Steve McIntyre wrote: Peter Smith wrote: --> Yes, I have already done that. Nevertheless the documentation on that Wiki page is wrong. I'd like to report a bug or something like this but the Wiki page does not provide any clues on how to do that. I don't want anybody else

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Peter Smith wrote: > >--> Yes, I have already done that. Nevertheless the documentation on >that Wiki page is wrong. I'd like to report a bug or something like >this but the Wiki page does not provide any clues on how to do that. >I don't want anybody else to waste his/her time by reading and

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:08:26AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 15-09-17, Peter Smith wrote: > > --> Yes, I have already done that. Nevertheless the documentation on > > that Wiki page is wrong. I'd like to report a bug or something like > > this but the Wiki page does not provide any clues on

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:48:21AM +0200, Peter Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > Specifically I did: > I changed the file

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:09:27AM +0200, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: [...] > I did it by xmodmap, just to different key than escape: Perhaps the problem is an interaction with the original poster's desktop environment (it is Gnome, iirc). Desktop

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:48:21 +0200, Peter Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > Specifically I did: > I

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 15-09-17, Peter Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > > > Specifically I did: > > I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard

Re: Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Peter Smith
> Hi, > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > Specifically I did: > I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to: > > XKBLAYOUT="us,at" > XKBVARIANT="," >

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 15-09-17, Peter Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > Specifically I did: > I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to: > >

Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Peter Smith
Hi, I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard Specifically I did: I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to: XKBLAYOUT="us,at" XKBVARIANT="," BACKSPACE="guess"

problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Nigel Henry
I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) + (shift). Someone mentioned using xkbprint, but I'm darned if I can find out how to use it, or

Re: problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/11/2007 11:15 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) + (shift). Someone mentioned using xkbprint, but I'm

Re: problem displaying my keyboard layouts onscreen

2007-06-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 June 2007 18:33, Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/11/2007 11:15 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: I have KDE setup to use, gb, us, ca, fr, and dvorak keyboard layouts. I would like to display onscreen the keyboard layouts showing all levels, particularly level 3 (alt gr) , and level 4 (alt gr) +

Problem with italian keyboard

2004-05-03 Thread Giannandrea Castaldi
Hi, I've just installed debian unstable on my laptop (acer travelmate 342T) and I've some problem with the configuration of the keyboard (italian). I've configured the keyboard using kbdconfig and setting qwerty-italian-standard. Working with the console (without X11), I can use all the keys of

Re: Problem with italian keyboard

2004-05-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:10:45AM +0200, Giannandrea Castaldi wrote: Hi, I've just installed debian unstable on my laptop (acer travelmate 342T) and I've some problem with the configuration of the keyboard (italian). I've configured the keyboard using kbdconfig and setting

Re: Problem with italian keyboard

2004-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:10:45AM +0200, Giannandrea Castaldi wrote: and added in my .bashrc the following lines: export LC_ALL=en_US export LANG=en_US export LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1 Perhaps LC_TYPE isn't correct I would expect LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 or similar. -- Colin Watson

Problem with the keyboard

2000-09-22 Thread Stephan Kulka
Sometimes I have the problem that some keys like the cursor do not work any more. The strange thing about ist that they work before for some time and then stop suddenly. In nano they write OB or OA for different cursor positions. I use a german keyboard layout which works properly normally.

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2000-01-02 Thread Di Prétoro Emmanuel
Hi, I have a problem with my keyboard, it's a belgian keyboard, and there's two choices. It tested both, but without any results to have the following symbol : ` It's not a quote, it's a ??? But even it isn't a very used symbol, I use it with the following command gcc xxx -o xxx `gtk-config

Debian 1.1 problem configuring Spanish keyboard

1996-05-02 Thread Bruce Perens
In /etc/init.d/keyboard, change the loadkeys line to load one of the other files in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables . You might want to configure what console font is used, change the font=none line to one of the fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts . Thanks Bruce