Keyboard layout on the console
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Symptom:
This article gives some know-how and solutions for the following problems:
In the console
- e.g. the tilde cannot be typed directly, but only by pressing the
key several times
- the american keyboard layout is configured
Cause:
During the installation or in YaST's administration
menu , a different keyboard layout than the german keyboard layout was
chosen. Possibly the KEYTABLE
entry in the file
/etc/rc.config
was also changed.
When the tilde or other accents do not appear, it is probably due to
that a keyboard layout with so called "dead keys" was chosen. On such
keyboards, accents or tildes do not appear directly, but only if
another sign was pressed afterwards. The tilde is then laid over e.g.
the letter "n", that produces the letter "ñ".
In normal Linux operations, one does not need most of the times these
diacritical marks, so it would be better if the "~" would appear right
after pushing the tilde key.
Solution:
- To configure the german keyboard,
- call YaST
- go to the menu "Configurations for installation", submenu
"Choosing keyboard layout" and
- choose the keyboard layout "de-latin1".
- Should you wish a keyboard without "dead keys", so you can enter the
tilde directly,
either choose the keyboard layout "de-lat1-nd" or
"de-latin1-nodeadkeys".
The keyboard layout is entered in the file /etc/rc.config
in
the variables KEYTABLE
. In the system it is installed on the
command
loadkeys <Path for keyboard layout file>
One finds the files with the different keyboard layouts in
/usr/lib/kbd/keytables
All these files have the extension .map
.
Keywords: KEYS, KEYBOARD, LATIN, DEADKEY, ACCENTS, TILDE
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