Hoary: Xfce support for swiss german keyboard

[Michele Ravani]

Hi

How can I change my keyboard mappings from the desktop so that my
swiss-german layout is mapped correctly?
Works fine with gnome ...

Thanks
M

[audriusb]

Quoting Michele Ravani <michele.ravani at gmx.ch>:

Write correct XKB settings into /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (or the same file from
X-org). There are 2 nice HOWTOs on WEB:
http://www.xfree86.org/current/XKB-Config.html
http://www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/html/xkb.html
Read one article and do modifications in the XConfig file. GNOME and KDE
sessions perform all settings in XKB library and common users don't need to
study XKB, but if you are using small Window Mangers (Window Maker, Icewm,
BlackBox), you need to configure X yourself.

Gediminas Bukauskas

Post by Michele Ravani
Hi
How can I change my keyboard mappings from the desktop so that my
swiss-german layout is mapped correctly?
Works fine with gnome ...
Thanks
M
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[telmo]

I also have the same issue. Im using a portuguese keyboard, and the
first time i installed xfce it worked, now it doesnt.

[dusu]

Hi,

here is how the keyboard part of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file looks like
(for a French keyboard...)


Code:
--------------------

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection

--------------------

[Michele Ravani]

Post by dusu
Hi,
here is how the keyboard part of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file looks like
(for a French keyboard...)
--------------------
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection
--------------------

Thanks.
Where can I find a list of the legal values?
I.e. IBM 600e for XkbModel and swiss-german for Xkblayout?

Michele

[dusu]

Hi,

though I'm not sure, I would try to replace "fr" by "ch", I guess
that's the code for switzerland (?). (But will this be swiss-german I
don't know ?)