Joss Winn wrote:

Hello,

Just a couple of quick and hopefully straight foward newbie questions. I'd be very grateful for your help :-)

1. I want to switch keymaps. I have a Japanese keyboard that is not supported by the default installed keymaps (listed in YaST). I have obtained the correct keymap, put it in /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/ and have it running in console mode (I edited my XF86config) but not in X Windows and when I go to YaST, it is not listed with all the other keymaps. How do I get it running automatically in X Windows when I log in?

If your keyboard is not supported in X but you can use int in the console mod place use the following option in your XF86Config the format depends which XFree86 you are running 3 or 4 have a look at the example files. With XkbDisable option you can use the same keyboard layout in X as in console XkbDisable For the keymap It should show you the keymaps in Yast (that is in my case since currently I am rewdefining the Turkish Q layout and I ahve like 4 different versions so far) Are you suer you placed it in the correct place and if you are running amc have you corrected the symbolic links in the mac directory since as I see it jap106 is symlinked to mac-us 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-Pl02.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 513 Aug 6 02:25 mac-be.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-br-abnt2.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-cz-us-qwertz.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 Aug 6 02:25 mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Aug 6 02:25 mac-de-latin1.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 770 Aug 6 02:25 mac-de_CH.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 650 Aug 6 02:25 mac-dk-latin1.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 501 Aug 6 02:25 mac-es.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 913 Aug 6 02:25 mac-fi-latin1.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1133 Aug 6 02:25 mac-fr.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-fr_CH-latin1.map.gz -> mac-ft.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-gr.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-hu.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 671 Aug 6 02:25 mac-it.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-jp106.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-no-latin1.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-pt-latin1.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 22 01:17 mac-ru1.map.gz -> mac-us.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 519 Aug 6 02:25 mac-se.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Aug 6 02:25 mac-template.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 771 Aug 6 02:25 mac-uk.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 911 Aug 6 02:25 mac-us.map.gz -- Togan Muftuoglu