serious problem with keyboard

bienchen · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: serious problem with keyboard

Hello,

IŽm in big trouble with my keyboard. Several weeks ago, I bought myself a american-layout keyboard (yeah!).
Before, I had a german-qwertz (buh!).
Now my keyboard is not working correctly and I have absolotely no idea what to do!
How do I change my system to accept a us board with no dead keys?
Even a few keys are not work. The backtick for example:Ž
And typing some keys twice is so annoying!
Me needs help!

greetings,

bienchen

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

$EDITOR /etc/conf.d/keymaps
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bienchen · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject:

my /etc/conf.d/keymaps:

# Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete tree
# of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from.

KEYMAP="us"

# Should we first load the 'windowkeys' console keymap? Most x86 users will
# say "yes" here. Note that non-x86 users should leave it as "no".

SET_WINDOWKEYS="no"

# The maps to load for extended keyboards. Most users will leave this as is.

EXTENDED_KEYMAPS=""
#EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="backspace keypad euro"

# Tell dumpkeys(1) to interpret character action codes to be
# from the specified character set.
# This only matters if you set UNICODE="yes" in /etc/rc.conf.
# For a list of valid sets, run `dumpkeys --help`

DUMPKEYS_CHARSET=""

What does "SET_WINDOWKEYS" do?

greetings,

bienchen

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

WINDOWKEYS are they keys with the windows/XP logo.

It seems you are asking about the X keyboard layout, not the console. For that you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Try something like:

bienchen · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

This is what I have in my XF86conf. But nothing changed.
When I type into the Adressline of firefox I can get a backtick: ´,
But typing into konsole, emacs, kwrite leaves me with:
By the way: Is the Xserver restarted, every time I leave a session?

greetings,

bienchen

bienchen · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Now I got some hint:

I've set my keyboard layout in KDE to pc105-us(intl) or something like this.
From kde I got that this is enabled by "setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us -variant intl".
Now because I have no "intl" keyboard, I tried

"setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us"

And got everything I wanted...but KDE has no adjustment I can see in Kontrolcenter to have this permanently...any clue how I set this system-wide and forever?

greetings,

bienchen