Umlaute on us keyboard

[Robert Schwebel]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:00:42PM +0200, Reinhard Thies wrote:
> I am running Debian and just switched to xorg 7.0. As many german
> programmer's I am using a us keybord. As long I had a Xmodmap to
> modify my keyboard to handle the german "umlaute".
> 
> How can I do this now? I can't find a Xmodmap file. Can someone help
> me how to do it now? Is there already a documentation for it?
 
You can put your own .Xmodmap for example into your home directory or
into a global location (/etc/X11/Xmodmap) and add something like

[ -f /etc/X11/Xmodmap ] && xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap 

to your Xsession. Nevertheless, these days I prefer to use the KDE
panel, which has a nice KDE Keyboard Tool that can be used to switch
between German and English keyboard with one click.

HTH,
Robert
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