Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] tilde, pipe and other keys on powerbook

[Carsten Ruecker]

Hi,

thanks jaspal and david for your advice... i solved the problem with


http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/keyboard_german.shtml

the article explains how to modify the apple key to work as alt-gr, so now i
have complete access to all those special chars "pc-style". it's not the mac
osx-mapping, but i am more used to pc-keyboards anyway :-)

carsten


> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Carsten Ruecker wrote:
>
> > jaspal.kallar.gen@×××××.se wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Carsten Ruecker wrote:
> > >
> > >> i'm trying to get my Powerbook G4 Titanium keyboard to produce
> characters
> > >> like ~|{}[]. So far it didn't work out. Can anybody help?
> >
> > > Ok, which language do you require for your keyboard and what is the
> value
> > of
> > > KEYMAP in /etc/rc.conf ?
> >
> > well, the language required is german, so my rc.config says
> > KEYMAP="de-latin1". That's ok as the umlauts etc. are mapped correctly,
> but
> > special keys like the previously mentioned ones are not available. On
> the
> > MacOSX german keyboard one was required to press something like alt-7 to
> get
> > a pipe-character and alt-n for a tilde, but this doesn't work on Gentoo
> with
> > my current settings. I also tried to load mac-de-latin1 as keymap, which
> > rendered my keyboard completely unusable.
> >
> >
>
> OK, I have a Swedish keyboard and i'm not sure I can help.
> However, I believe you have the *pc* german layout since "de-latin1" is
> found under
>
> "usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1.map.gz".
>
> To have it like on mac os x, I don't know since I have come from a pc
> background and prefer to
> use the pc layout (since I am used to it). Also I use gentoo 90 % OS X 10%
> of my time.
>
> I think there are solutions if you search under
> http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php
>
> perhaps with words "german keyboard mac".
>
> Try posting in the german gentoo forum,
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=28
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
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