French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 22:04:34 PJ wrote:
> Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 15:20:34 PJ wrote:
>>> xorg.conf: (snip for relevant)
>>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>> Identifier "X.org Configured"
>>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>>> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
>>> EndSection
>>> 
>>> Section "Files"
>>> ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>>> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>>> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>>> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
>>> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>>> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>>> FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>>> EndSection
>>> 
>>> Section "Module"
>>> Load "extmod"
>>> Load "record"
>>> Load "dbe"
>>> Load "glx"
>>> Load "GLcore"
>>> Load "xtrap"
>>> Load "dri"
>>> Load "freetype"
>>> EndSection
>>> 
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>> Identifier "Keyboard0"
>>> Driver "kbd"
>>> Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
>> 
>> This might have to be pc105, but it probably doesn't matter.
>> 
>>> Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca"
>> 
>> Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#QWERTY
>> If you have Canadian Multilingual Standard, this option needs to be
>> set to "ca(multi)". If you have Canadian French, set it to "ca" or
>> "ca(fr)".
> 
> This does not set it to the Canadian French; nor can I find anything
> that does... only my lame setup works using the French azerty (which
> is rather a pain because it involves complicated finger moves to get
> the accented characters - I'm familiar with it and can use it; it's
> just a pita.

It works for me. What if you run "setxkbmap ca" or "setxkbmap ca multi"
in an X terminal? Do you then get "azerty" when you type "qwerty"?