Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got

Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-23 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: changing /etc/default/console-setup should be enough, xorg.conf is ignored. Aah.. That explains it. Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. It is

Re: Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,23.May.09, 13:37:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Restart hal, at least in theory. Yes, in theory. In practice it may be different. I restarted it by means of /etc/init.d/hal restart, and got some weird results. Yes, that's why I said in theory. You did restart X after restarting

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
- Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl a écrit : i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? exactly! and if you ask why: the french layout is

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-20 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Bruno Boettcher wrote: kbd is still on nodeadkeys... It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a system with evdev, type setxkbmap -print and see if evdev is mentioned. If it is, it seems that at the

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,20.May.09, 22:45:23, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Bruno Boettcher wrote: kbd is still on nodeadkeys... It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a system with evdev, type setxkbmap -print and

Re: keyboard mapping problem under X

2009-05-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello [..] i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard... You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard? still, dead-keys aren't working so, what possibilities remain to