Hi
I'm running debian sarge with xfree 4.3.0.1. I'd like to be able to write
both in German and in Russian on my notebook which has a de_CH
(Swiss German) keyboard layout. Unfortunatly, I can't set the XkbLayout
to "de_CH,ru(phonetic)" and the command
setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc105 -layout "de_CH,ru(phonetic)" \
-option "grp:ctrls_toggle"
is failing with "Error loading new keyboard description".
I tried it with "de,ru(phonetic)". That one is working, but the Swiss German
(de_CH) and the German (de) keyboard layout have only have a few mutualities,
so that's not a final solution. I also tried to look at the differences
between the two symbol files, but I don't quite undertand the docs. The
difference between the manpage and other docs puzzeles me:
man setxkbmap:
-layout name
Specifies the name of the layout used to determine the components
which make up the keyboard description. Only one layout may be
specified on the command line.
And /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.XKB-Config.gz, aside from some
typos:
Of course, this can be also done at runtime using utility setxkbmap. Shell
command loading the same keyboard mapping would look like:
setxkmap -rules xfree86 -model logicordless -layout "us,cz,de" \
-option "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
What's the right way to toggle between the de_CH and the ru layout?
Regards, Mathias
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