choosing a keyboard layout

[Kurt V. Hindenburg]

On Monday 13 September 2004 01:15 am, mfitzgerald wrote:
> There was nothing at /usr/share/keymaps however the help section for
> xkbd says that the files should be in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/.  There were
> several files in there that were named xorg.xml, xorg-it.lst and
> xorg.lst. I copied them and renamed them xfree86.xml xfree86-it.lst and
> xfree86.lst.
>
> Going back to control center I discovered a list of keyboards, layouts
> and other choices available on the keyboard layout panels.
>
I see; but that is just the list.  Where are the actual files for the layouts? 
Does selecting a keyboard layout work for you?

% ls -l /etc/X11/xkb/rules/
-r--r--r--  1 root root    110 Sep 10 23:04 README
-r--r--r--  1 root root   3096 Sep 10 23:04 sgi
-r--r--r--  1 root root   2525 Sep 10 23:04 sgi.lst
-r--r--r--  1 root root   1662 Sep 10 23:04 sun
-r--r--r--  1 root root   1748 Sep 10 23:04 sun.lst
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 Sep 10 23:04 xfree86 -> xorg
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      8 Sep 10 23:04 xfree86.lst -> xorg.lst
-r--r--r--  1 root root   6649 Sep 10 23:04 xorg
-r--r--r--  1 root root   1443 Sep 10 23:04 xorg-it.lst
-r--r--r--  1 root root   8829 Sep 10 23:04 xorg.lst
-r--r--r--  1 root root 331727 Sep 10 23:04 xorg.xml

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