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Swiss french keyboard in Debian Etch
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| Hi,
Could you please help me to configure my keyboard with the swiss french
configuration for the console mode and in X ?
It seems that special caracter like @ or # is not available as I have to
press the Alt-Gr key on the keyboard.
I just installed the Etch distribution.
Thanks a lot.
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| Jacob Tranholm 2007-10-07, 7:14 am |
| R. skrev:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please help me to configure my keyboard with the swiss french
> configuration for the console mode and in X ?
> It seems that special caracter like @ or # is not available as I have to
> press the Alt-Gr key on the keyboard.
> I just installed the Etch distribution.
> Thanks a lot.
>
First of all make sure the 'locales' package is installed:
apt-get install locales
Next try the following commands:
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
dpkg-reconfigure locales
And finally change the 'XkbLayout' variable in your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'.
I am using the above instructions for changing into danish setting,
where it works. The procedure should be the same for swiss french
settings...
--
Best regards Jacob Tranholm <http://jtranholm.dk/>
Karl R. Popper: Observation statements and statements of experimental
results are always interpretations of the facts observed.
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| Mark South 2007-10-07, 1:14 pm |
| On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:30:14 +0200, R. wrote:
> Could you please help me to configure my keyboard with the swiss french
> configuration for the console mode and in X ?
> It seems that special caracter like @ or # is not available as I have to
> press the Alt-Gr key on the keyboard.
The only way to get # and @ and several others (like []{}~) is to use
Alt-Gr: that's the way the swiss french keyboard works.
This will not work if you selected "nodeadkeys", is that the problem?
> I just installed the Etch distribution.
I'm running Etch and using a swiss french keyboard with no problems, BTW.
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| Hello,
Where caqn I modify this option "nodeadkeys". I look at it in xorg.conf
file but didn't find it out.
I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales but nothing changed.
Do you have any documentation I can read about the general console and
keyboard settings in Debian Etch ?
Thanks a lot,
R.
> Could you please help me to configure my keyboard with the swiss french
> configuration for the console mode and in X ?
> It seems that special caracter like @ or # is not available as I have to
> press the Alt-Gr key on the keyboard.
The only way to get # and @ and several others (like []{}~) is to use
Alt-Gr: that's the way the swiss french keyboard works.
This will not work if you selected "nodeadkeys", is that the problem?
> I just installed the Etch distribution.
I'm running Etch and using a swiss french keyboard with no problems, BTW.
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| Kai-Martin Knaak 2007-10-07, 1:14 pm |
| On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:45:40 +0200, R. wrote:
> Where caqn I modify this option "nodeadkeys". I look at it in
> xorg.conf
> file but didn't find it out.
> I tried dpkg-reconfigure locales but nothing changed.
reconfigure xserver-xorg
will ask for the Xwindows parameters including keyboard options.
Alternatively, you can edit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
If there is an option "nodeadkeys", just comment out the line with an #.
> Do you have any
> documentation I can read about the general console and keyboard settings
> in Debian Etch ?
The general docs of xorg apply. IMHO there is nothing special about the
way etch deals with the keyboard.
---<(kaimartin)>---
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Kai-Martin Knaak
http://lilalaser.de/blog
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| AJackson 2007-10-18, 1:15 am |
| On Oct 7, 3:10 pm, Mark South <mark.so...@null.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:30:14 +0200, R. wrote:
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> The only way to get # and @ and several others (like []{}~) is to use
> Alt-Gr: that's the way the swiss french keyboard works.
Isn't this the way it is supposed to work? I have to type AltGr-2 to
get @ on my swedish key board (as in other OS:s).
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| Mark South 2007-10-18, 7:15 am |
| On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:36:44 +0000, AJackson wrote:
> On Oct 7, 3:10 pm, Mark South <mark.so...@null.invalid> wrote:
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> Isn't this the way it is supposed to work? I have to type AltGr-2 to
> get @ on my swedish key board (as in other OS:s).
That's the way it's designed to work, but ISTR that if you select
nodeadkeys keyboard setups that some of those characters go away.
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| gerd@gmx.ch 2007-11-30, 7:12 pm |
| Did you upgrade from sarge to etch? Then there might be a wrong entry
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
In section "Input Device" there should be:
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XbkVariant" "de"
and not!
Option "XbkLayout" "de_CH"
Gerd
On 18 Okt., 11:36, Mark South <mark.so...@null.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:36:44 +0000, AJackson wrote:
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> That's the way it's designed to work, but ISTR that if you select
> nodeadkeys keyboard setups that some of those characters go away.
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