Re: Swiss Keyboard? (woody and sarge)

[Urs Schroffenegger]

Martin Petruzzi wrote:

Hi

I hope somebody can help me with the following strange problem.

I know about wrong settings in XF86Config-4 with keyboards and I know it will work or not consequently, but at the moment I experience only a part of this problem. I have an IBM ThinkPad with a swiss-german keyboard.

On the console, ä, ö, ü and Alt-Gr work perfectly, they still do in the gdm-login-screen. As soon as I am in X, they don't work in a terminal. They work within other programs like OpenOffice, FireFox and many others, but not in a terminal (gnome-terminal, xterm etc.).
 

I don't think it matters if it works for the console, but that it won't 
work for some applications under X is strange...

The most annoying problem is, that they do not work in the compose window of my favorite mail-client (sylpheed) eighter, where I really need them. They work in the Address and Subject-field of the compose window, but not in the message field.
 

Don't know if it helps, I had this kind of problems on several 
installation, for now i got:

Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
       Driver          "keyboard"
       Option          "CoreKeyboard"
       Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "de_CH"
#       Option          "XkbVariant"    "de_CH"
#       Option          "XkbOptions"    "de_CH"
EndSection
for a woody installation with a swiss-german keyboard

and:

Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
       Driver          "keyboard"
       Option          "CoreKeyboard"
       Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr_CH"
EndSection
for a testing/unstable installation with a swiss-french keyboard.

perhaps it's the pc102/pc105

The keyboard section in XF86Config-4 contains: 
- XkbRules    "xfree86"
- XkbModel    "pc102"
- XkbLayout   "de_CH"

Where else do I need to make settings?
 

I can't think of other files to change, but on the german one, I 
couldn't get it with dpkg-reconfigure, I had to change XF86Config-4 by 
hand.

I'm running woody and sarge on this machine, the problem is exactly the same!

Thank you very much for any help or advise.
 

I hope it helps. If you have some questions on my settings, feel free to ask

Martin
 

urs

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