keyboard change from qwerz to qwerty

bienchen

Hello,

I replaced my former qwertz keyboard by an qwerty one (Cherry G81-3000).
How can I set my system up for it? So, what settings do the qwerty-users among the
Gentoo-community have?
Several symbols (", ~, ^, ...) first appear after typing it twice or SPACE. This is annoying.

greetings,

bienchen

UncleTom · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 10:09 am Post subject:

I'm not sure I understand your question correctly, so this may be not the information you asked for...

You can change the keyboard layout of the console in /etc/rc.conf by setting a different value for KEYMAP.

In KDE you can change the layout in the Control Center ("Regional & Accessibility" -> "Keyboard Layout").

As for your question about the symbols: that's how you can enter special characters (äöüñéà...) on a keyboard that doesn't have a key for them. It's called "dead keys". If you don't want this you should use a KEYMAP that has "nodeadkeys" in it.
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bienchen · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

OK, and which keymap should I choose for a qwerty keyboard with the nodeadkeys option? I think the trivial name is US-keyboard.

greetings,

bienchen

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