choosing a keyboard layout

[mfitzgerald]

Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:

>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
>  
>

Yes it does. For whatever reason the installation didn't create the 
symlinks that you are showing. I removed the copied files and generated 
symlinks to the xorg files. That works nicely.


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