Every keyboard I've seen does it that way...oh, wait a minute...
I forgot, you're from belgium? I don't know a thing about it. I only know about the US QWERTY layout.
You might have two Alt keys? Use the other one?
From: Tom <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [XFree86] xkb trouble with Belgian keymap Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:17:38 +0100
Hey all,
I'm really getting desperate with my keyboard, and I was hoping that someone here could finally help me out.
I run Debian (sid), and therefore XFree86 4.2.1. Until about a week ago, my keyboard functioned quite properly. A minor problem was the fact that I couldn't type a backslash using AltGr + the LESS/GREATER_THAN button (which should be possible). Instead I was able to use AltGr + ), and I could definitely live with that. Everything else was perfect.
Then, I learned somewhere that the solution to that tiny backslash problem might be to
wget -O /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/be
from http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/xc/programs/xkbcomp/ symbols/pc/be
So I did. I could still slap myself in the face for that, because it only made things worse. My AltGr just stopped functioning; I couldn't use it anymore *at all*. Later on, the solution to the new problem *and* the previous small problem was to do the same thing, but with an older revision of the Belgian keyboard-mapping.
.../xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/pc/be?rev=1.3
Indeed, everything was perfect afterwards. Only, after I logged in the next day, I was back to the second stage: no AltGr at all. Since that moment, I've tried about everything I can think of. I've replaced the Belgian keymap file with the original file from Debian's X, I've tried both cvsweb-versions, all to no avail.
At this point, the original Debian file is in the symbols/pc directory, but when I try to 'setxkbmap be' or even 'setxkbamp -rules xfree86 -model pc -layout be -option ""', all I get is the error "error loading new keyboard description". I don't understand, and the error message doesn't really give me a clue. Why would the original file, that has been working almost perfectly before, all of a sudden yield errors??
I'm really out of ideas. My only option seems to be a complete new install, but that is arguably not my favorite... Could anyone please shed a light on this?
Thanks a lot... Tom
-- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Vromb - Synthonisation (flac)
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