Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:15:28PM EST, Robert Latest wrote: [..] > What now? I'm stumped. Works here out of the box on Debian stable. Since I do not run dwm, I did the following: $ /bin/su - # apt-get install dwm # adduser dwm # password .. enter .. enter # cd /home/dw

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:15:28 +0100, Robert Latest wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Run "xev" and type the combo of one of the characters you are not >> getting, like "[" to see what you get instead. > > Interesting: In xev, I seem to get exactly what I want -- see be

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-06 Thread Robert Latest
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Run "xev" and type the combo of one of the characters you are not > getting, like "[" to see what you get instead. Interesting: In xev, I seem to get exactly what I want -- see below xev's dump of my first pressing AltGr, then a bunch of keys I w

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:03:22 +0100, Robert Latest wrote: >> Mine (under lenny) is this: >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Generic Keyboard" >> Driver "kbd" >> Option "XkbRules" "xorg" >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" >> Option

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-02 Thread Robert Latest
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Mine (under lenny) is this: > > Section "InputDevice" >    Identifier  "Generic Keyboard" >    Driver              "kbd" >    Option              "XkbRules"      "xorg" >    Option              "XkbModel"      "pc105" >    Option              "Xkb

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-01-01 a las 21:56 +0100, Robert Latest escribió: (resending to the list) > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > How does your "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" InputDevice section look like? > > Like this: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" >

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Cates
Hi, question - when you started the installation, did you choose a German keyboard layout? I'm somewhat new at this as well, and I don't know dwm, but I've always chosen English as my language and German with no dead-keys for my keyboard layout and I never had a problem. You can configure X

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2010-12-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:21:01 +0100, Robert Latest wrote: > recently I re-activated my wife's 8-year-old laptop using debian stable. > The installation went of course quickly and hitch-free as usual. > However, what doesn't work correctly is the keyboard under X. More > precisely, the symbols acces