Apple's X11 and international keyboards

Jan 13, '03 09:31:18AM

Contributed by: Ezekiel

A lot of people seem to be having problems getting Apple's X11 version to work with their international keyboards. Skimming the web, I found this to be a good way of solving it (part of it taken from some mandrake linux forum):

  1. Run XDarwin or OroborOSX and have it use your language.keymapping file.

  2. In a terminal, do the following:
     % xmodmap -pke .yourlanguage.xmodmap
  3. Quit XDarwin and run X11.app

  4. In a terminal, run:
     % xmodmap .yourlanguage.xmodmap
You should now have a working international keyboard! If this works, you can make it run every time you start X11 by adding the following line to your .xinitrc file:
 exec xmodmap .yourlanguage.xmodmap
[Editor's note: I have not tested this one...]

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