How to setup international keyboard in X Window with Xmodmap and XKB
by Juraj Sipos, xvudpapc@savba.sk
How to setup international keyboard in Linux or Unix with Xmodmap and XKB written by (c) Juraj Sipos. The Xmodmap is a file that XFree86 reads in order to give you a keyboard layout. This solution will work for you in setting up any international keyboard for (Debian, RedHat, Mandrake, CorelLinux) Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and possibly every Unix that uses XFree86. The advantage of this howto is that it is not architecture specific and will work on all other systems.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Copyright
- 1.2. Revision history
- 1.3. Introduction
- 2. Setting up international keyboard in X Window System with Xmodmap and XKB
- 2.1. Quick start
- 3. How to do it: this experimental solution is a legacy issue - do not read it if you use newer systems
- 4. Xmodmap theory and Xmodmap solution
- 5. Character sets
- 6. How this Xmodmap solution works on various systems
- 6.1. SuSE 6.4 and 7.0
- 6.2. SuSE 7.0 (Xfree86 3.3.6, KDE 1.x), SuSE 8.0
- 6.3. Mandrake Linux 7.2
- 6.4. Mandrake 8.1
- 6.5. RedHat 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 (XFree86 3.3.6 and older)
- 6.6. RedHat 7.2, RedHat 8.0, Slackware 8.1
- 6.7. FreeBSD 3.1 and 3.2
- 6.8. FreeBSD 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
- 6.9. FreeBSD 4.6.
- 6.10. Corel Linux 1.0 and 1.1
- 7. ISO* specifications
- 8. Some national Xmodmap files
- 8.1. German
- 8.2. Hungarian
- 8.3. Czech
- 8.4. Polish
- 8.5. French
- 8.6. Croatian/Slovenian
- 8.7. Lithuanian keyboard (AZERTY layout)
- 8.8. Polish
- 9. Troubleshooting and some Xmodmap tips
- 9.1. Troubleshooting
- 9.2. Tips
- 10. Links
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