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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree86: How to use German keyboard ? Date: 25 Jun 1994 19:50:19 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2uhqp9$6g2@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <1994Jun24.053049.27245@rhrk.uni-kl.de> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1994Jun24.053049.27245@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT] <weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote: >Hello, >I would like to use my German keyboard with XFree86 (on FreeBSD 1.1R). There are many ways to do that. I have a french map for syscons and a .xmodmap for XFree86. I think XFree86 will take most of the key assignments from syscons but as my xmodmap is working well... >Is there a more convenient way than finding out every single key >and remap it with Xmodmap ? And if not, can someone who has done that >already send me necessary lines for the .xinitrc ? You can use xev(1x) to find which event are associated with a key press. You can use, and it very easier, use xkeycaps-2.21.tar.gz which will draw an image of your keyboard. You can modify each value and it will generate the xmodmap itself. You can find it in your nearest contrib site. >BTW - is twm the only window manager available ? Has anybody >tried to build (or configure :-) a Motif mwm lookalike ? You can try fvwm (I use it now) which Motif-like and is faster, use less memory, and so on. -- Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(ALPHA) CURRENT_142#0 i386