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* Ben Waltmann <benwaltmann@×××.de> [04/10/09 08:43 +0200]: |
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> Why only us-keyboard? E.g. with the german keyboard layout |
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> I have that is almost unusable. A command line option would be |
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> nice, wouldn't it? |
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Yes, that would be nice. See this package as a first |
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approve in generating an X-config and get that thing |
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started. The features will be added later ;-) |
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> All the graphics related things work well (why is dri commented?), |
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There are still problems on several boards. And only fbdev |
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is used. Probably some tests could be added to distinguish |
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between Radeon and Rage or Nvidia cards. If that is |
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resolved, we could try to uncomment DRI. |
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> I have only some trouble with the keyboard settings. |
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> First, my "self made" AltGr-emulation and switching |
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> beetween the ttys did not work. |
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> I commented out the the "macintosh" option and that helped. |
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> For some special keys adding the line |
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> Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" |
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> is also necessary. |
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Keyboards on Apples was always a pain. First question: |
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Which key would you use as the AltGr? I recommend The |
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Apple-Key, but some would like to use it as the Win-key for |
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opening the applications-roster (it's the same Keycode). |
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Writing Keymaps isn't that hard. Even xmodmap is an option |
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to involve. Probably I can find some time to write the |
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.xmodmaprc for German and a customized Dvorak layout, so |
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that they will be loaded with xmodmap. Or even better |
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complete layouts which we can send upstream so that they |
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become included in future X.org-releases. |
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But that work has to be done -- and it's also just a |
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feature. |
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Thanks to all who already tested the utility. It seems that |
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we can include it to the LiveDVD (if nobody will commit a |
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bug about it). |
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Regards, Lars |
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