German keyboard under XFree86 on iBook2

[Andreas Steffen]

Hello there!
I've got myself a used iBook2, and promptly installed Gentoo Linux onto
it. Now I've hit a little speedbump (as if compiling X from source
wasn't enough of one), namely the apparent absence of keys for "|" and
"~", two characters which are very annoying not to have. Does anybody
know what the right settings for a german keyboard map with those
characters on it are?

Thanks in advance!
Andreas Steffen

[Thomas Otto]

> I've got myself a used iBook2, and promptly installed Gentoo Linux onto
> it. Now I've hit a little speedbump (as if compiling X from source
> wasn't enough of one), namely the apparent absence of keys for "|" and
> "~", two characters which are very annoying not to have. Does anybody
> know what the right settings for a german keyboard map with those
> characters on it are?

Common problem :/, a real german KB layout doesn't seem to exist.

On my iBook2 (with Debian, isn't gentoo a PITA on there? *flame* ;-) I
just source my ~/.Xmodmap[1] when I login via .xsession. Kind of a hack,
but it works...

The other way would be to modify the layout yourself, see
<http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/keyboard_german.shtml>
for a detailed description.

HTH

-Thomas

[1]
~/.Xmodmap:

! compose key is shift+apple, i.e. compose,e,' = é
keycode 115 = Mode_switch Multi_key
! a second Enter?? pfff
keycode 108 = Delete

keycode 46 = l L at
keycode 26 = e E EuroSign
keycode 54 = c C cent

! < > |
keycode 94 = less greater bar

! + * ~
keycode 35 = plus asterisk asciitilde

! 7-0 AltGr keycodes

keycode 16 = 7 slash braceleft
keycode 17 = 8 parenleft bracketleft
keycode 18 = 9 parenright bracketright
keycode 19 = 0 equal braceright
keycode 20 = ssharp question backslash