No French keymap in Puppy?

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Romain

No French keymap in Puppy?

#1 Post by Romain »

Dear All,

I have a problem with Puppy 1.0.1 : the french keyboard layout does not have the letters

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#2 Post by papaschtroumpf »

I am French, but live in the US and use puppy with a US keyboard.
Mandriva LE 2005 user and puppy newbie

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#3 Post by Rich »

not familiar with the French Keyboard layout really, or how get the accents and cedillas in the right place, BUT there are a couple of things that I recall from the last keyboard mapping I looked at.

the computer MUST be rebooted for the changes to take place,
if the AltGR key is used to get special symbols then there's a good chance it won't work within a browser ( for some reason it's disabled in Mozilla etc. )

Are you sure that it's the fr.map that is being called by your system?
( double check this in /.etc/keymap. ) it could feasibly be calling another file instead, so changing the fr.map file won't have any effect anyway

Bon Chance

( if you can - post a pic of the keyboard layout and I'll have a go at the file - see if I have any luck ! )


Rich

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#4 Post by Alienx »

Cher Romain,

There are 2 ways to try it in Mouse/Keyboard Wizard.

For some layouts only the second (Choose keyboard layout, older 2-letter method) works

it may work in all programs except Rxvt/Ash, this is the case of my brazilian keyboard

Bonne chance ! :wink:
Sorry, broken english above :-)

Romain

french keyboard

#5 Post by Romain »

Dear All,

I have solved the first half of the problem by importing the fr-latin1 keymap from Mandrake. By comparing with the fr.map file used by Puppy, I found many differences.

Whereas some apps (Abiword, mp, Planmaker, Sylpheed, ... ) recognize this keymap, others (rxvt, beaver, ... ) don't.

Is there a simple way to force rxvt to use the right keymap ?

Merci beaucoup.

Romain.

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#6 Post by Alienx »

Romain wrote:
Is there a simple way to force rxvt to use the right keymap ?
I think that you should replace the pair rxvt / ash by aterm / bash ...

see some accented letters in the screenshot
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Please assure better keymaps are getting inside 1.0.4 Puppy

#7 Post by PeterSieg »

Hi, german user have similiar problems...
So probably also another/better keyboard file could solve that too...

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Have fun :)

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