"Shachar Shemesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry for being reduced to newbe levels all over again, but there > are quite some things I don't understand about the way X handles the > keyboard mappings.
X just loads files specified in the X config file. For me they look so: Option "XkbLayout" "ru" Option "XkbVariant" "winkeys" This means that X uses /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file and section "winkeys" from it. > I am using kxkb, which provides a KDE applet for real > time switching of keyboards. Looking at /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/hebrew told > me nothing I didn't know from looking at the key caps on my keyboard > (I'm not near my computer, I'll attach them later). > > Thing I am trying to say is that all my configuration came from a > vanilla KDE Debian installation, Hebrew keyboard included. I don't know > where KDE takes the keyboards from. I would assume the KDE just uses standard Xlib functions and doesn't provide its own keyboard mappings. > The reason I gave up on researching this on my own was the "Q" and "W" > keys. In the Israeli keyboard, unshifted these keys issue the / and ' > symbols respectively. These keys were not matched either (and pressing > them convincingly issued these chars, so I know this is not a > misunderstanding). You can verify keyboard mappings using standard xev tool. -- Dmitry.
