From: Bütow, Michael (michael.buetow@comsoft.de)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2006 - 02:28:31 EDT
I asked for why Tru64 misdetected my PCXAL keyboard as LK411, and how the best way to fix it.
While I did not find out the "why" yet, I had several suggestions how to correct the problem.
In the end I went with the solution from Peter Stern, who suggested to edit /usr/lib/X11/Xserver.conf and add the option "-xkbmap digital_us_pcxal" to the X server "args" section, then restart the xlogin manager using /sbin/rc3.d/S95xlogin restart.
The file /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymaps.dir gives more details to how the keyboard selection is made, and contains more keyboard layouts.
John Lanier suggested the cause may be a command in $HOME/.dtprofile (or applicable keymap definition file) that got launched each time I log in. Unfortunately I could not find any such setting, but John's advice to use the dxkeycaps command was also helpful. I reproduce it below.
Thanks to all who replied !
Michael Bütow
--- begin relevant dxkeykaps options
from "man dxkeycaps":
-mapfile mapfile-name
Available only with the newer, XKB-based dxkeycaps command. Specifies
the use of a specific keymap file. Use this option to specify a user-
owned keymap file or to load a different keymap file. The mapfile-name
parameter must include the full path.
Other:
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"-keyboard keyboard-name or -kbd keyboard-name
Specifies the type of keyboard to display. There are many different
types of computer keyboards. To function correctly, dxkeycaps must know
which keyboard you are using. The known keyboard types are defined in
keymap files that reside in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/ (for XKB format
keyboards) or /usr/lib/X11/keymaps/ (for xmodmap format keyboards).
If the console's keyboard language parameter is set correctly, a dxkey-
caps command with no option selects the correct keyboard by default.
Likewise, a -keyboard option with no command line parameters selects
the correct keyboard by default. (To set the console's keyboard
language, use the set language command. See the section on environment
variables in your workstation user's guide.)
To display a keyboard layout, the keyboard must be attached to the
machine that hosts the display.
To display the British/Irish keyboard layout, specify:
% dxkeycaps -kbd "pcxal (British/Irish)"
To display the default PCXAL (American) keyboard layout, specify:
% dxkeycaps -kbd pcxal
To cause the system to display a keyboard based on kernel and console
environment information, just as if you issued a dxkeycaps command with
no parameters, specify:
% dxkeycaps -kbd badkeyboardname
Case does not matter when you specify a keyboard name, but you must
quote keyboard names that contain spaces. For example:
% dxkeycaps -kbd "PCXAL-AE (United Kingdom)"
-old
Available only with the newer, XKB-based dxkeycaps command. Specifies
the use of the older, xmodmap-based dxkeycaps command.
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