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Conference unxa::cde

Title:	CDE on Digital UNIXonment - CDE
Notice:	CDE on Digital UNIX - for CDE on VMS, please see Note 1.3
Moderator:	UNXA::SYSTEM

Created:	Tue Nov 23 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	660
Total number of notes:	2674

623.0. "How to change the default keyboard with CDE" by PRSSOS::TISSERAND (Jean-Marc Tisserand, French CSC, 858-6801) Thu Mar 20 1997 05:25

Hi,

I would like to know the complete step to set a default keyboard for the
XServer within CDE.

I see that the Xserver uses the XKB extension to set the default keyboard,
based on the language and keyboard_type set at the console prompt.
It appears to work.

However, I have a problem with a French LK411 keyboard where some keys are not
well mapped. Is there a documentation explaining how to modify the files
supplied in the /usr/lib/X11/xkb directory to fix a mapping problem ?

I tried to disable the XKB extension when starting the Xserver. In this case,
how the default keyboard is set ?
Does it use the keymap_default link in /var/X11/xdm ?


Thanks in advance,
Jean-Marc

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623.1 UNXA::BEUTE No good deed ever goes unpunished... Thu Mar 20 1997 09:44 17

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623.1		UNXA::BEUTE	No good deed ever goes unpunished...	`Thu Mar 20 1997 09:44`	17
	>>However, I have a problem with a French LK411 keyboard where some keys are not >>well mapped. Is there a documentation explaining how to modify the files >>supplied in the /usr/lib/X11/xkb directory to fix a mapping problem ? If there are problems, you should QAR them... >>I tried to disable the XKB extension when starting the Xserver. In this case, >>how the default keyboard is set ? >>Does it use the keymap_default link in /var/X11/xdm ? The best documentation I've seen is in the man page for dxkeyboard. If that isn't sufficient, the Xserver folks monitor the BULOVA::DECWINDOWS conference, you might try asking there.


>>However, I have a problem with a French LK411 keyboard where some keys are not
>>well mapped. Is there a documentation explaining how to modify the files
>>supplied in the /usr/lib/X11/xkb directory to fix a mapping problem ?

If there are problems, you should QAR them...

>>I tried to disable the XKB extension when starting the Xserver. In this case,
>>how the default keyboard is set ?
>>Does it use the keymap_default link in /var/X11/xdm ?

The best documentation I've seen is in the man page for dxkeyboard. If
that isn't sufficient, the Xserver folks monitor the BULOVA::DECWINDOWS
conference, you might try asking there.