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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, rappe.matthias wrote:

>         Dear Readers,
>
>                 BL3: how  do I change the keyboard mapping to qwertz, please?
>
>         Matthias Rappe

Get loadkeys (kbd.tgz) for console, and/or xmodmap or setxkbmap (xbin.tgz) 
for X, from Slackware 4.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Intkeyb/index.html explains it for X.


For console keyboard:

Loadkeys de-latin1

You will also want to change the font with setfont to get umlauts.

You can install the whole package (most of which will be irrelevant) or 
tar -zxvf in /tmp and then just copy over the parts you need.

For console, you will need at least loadkeys and de-latin1 keytable.

xmodmap can be used to change individual keys.  I reported on this for
my 84-key keyboard (F keys on left) in the BL archives and someone else
explained how to fix a backspace problem.

Sindi