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- From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Thanks for SLS, and some X problems.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.010259.19573@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:02:59 GMT
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- In article <726151359.27398@minster.york.ac.uk>, gary@minster.york.ac.uk
- writes:
- |> When in X the keyboard translation seem wrong. I'm using a UK
- |> keyboard but X seems to think it's a US. I have rebuilt the kernel
- |> for a UK keyboard and the translation work fine when not in X. I'm
- |> not an X guru. Any clues?
-
- well I found that I had to include a file (xmodmap.uk which I've forgotten
- where i got) in the ~/.xinitrc
- ...
- xmodmap -quiet /etc/xmodmap.uk
- ...
-
- /etc/xmodmap.uk contains lines in the following format
-
- ...
- keycode 9 = Escape
- keycode 10 = 1 exclam
- keycode 11 = 2 quotedbl
- keycode 12 = 3 sterling
- keycode 13 = 4 dollar
- keycode 14 = 5 percent
- ...
-
- Hope that this helps
-
- Phil
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