Using an international keyboard with Linux & Xorg

xorg.conf

After installing xorg, generate your xorg.conf with

X -configure

at the command line and make sure it works.

Copy it to it's correct place (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and edit the section "InputDevice" to look like this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbLayout" "no"
EndSection

Replace "no" with the code for your layout, to find it, do

ls /usr/X11R6/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/

Don't include the .map.gz part. If you have a keyboard with a qwertz or a dvorak layout, it will obviously not be in qwerty...

Console

Gentoo specific:

Edit /etc/rc.conf and make sure to have something like this in there:

KEYMAP="xx"

Comments:

By hackobacko on Apr 14, 2006:

what about layout keys ?

I can't use alt+shift to change between layouts
even after adjusting kde control center to use them
It's always alt+ctrl+k for me , but I want alt_shift groups so how can it be done ?

By n on Apr 18, 2006:

Maybe something like this?

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