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Title: Keyboard layout in the console

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Keyboard layout in the console

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: from 4.2 on

Symptom:

This article gives some know-how and solutions for the following problems:

In the console

When this problem appears as well or only under XFree86, see the article keyboard layout under XFree86 beta versions or keyboard layout under XFree86-3.2

Cause:

During the installation or in YaST's administration menu , another one was chosen rather than the german keyboard layout. 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 it was chosen a keyboard layout with the so called "dead keys". 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", what produces the letter "ñ".

In usual 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:

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 find the files with the different keyboard layouts in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables

All these files have an extension .map as the filename.

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See also:

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Keywords: KEYS, KEYBOARD, LATIN, DEADKEY, ACCENTS, TILDE

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