[oclug] changing keyboard language

[Roger Messier]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:09:10 -0400 Roger Messier <en916 at freenet.carleton.ca>
wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:41:03 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier"
> <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> > On 15/07/03 Roger Messier did speaketh:
> > 
> > > Anyone know how to change the keyboard layout (english <-> french) in
> > > IceWM?
> > >  In
> > > KDE, I could just click on the icon in the taskbar to change language, but
> > > I haven't seen any similar option in IceWM.  Are there any standalone
> > > utilities to do this?
> > 
> >     It has nothing to do with your window manager. 
> > 
> >     man loadkeys
> > 
> >     What distro?
> > 
> >     Mike
> 
> Thanks, I'll look into it.  I had a quick look at the keymaps in
> /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty but there doesn't seem to be any for french.
> 
> I'm using Mandrake 9.1.

OK, I've found what would appear to be some french keymaps in
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty, but when I load them, I don't get the french
keyboard.  There has to be a french keymap somewhere on my system since I can
use it if login into KDE, but I have to find it.

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