italian keyboard problem...

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: italian keyboard problem...
started by: gooddays

Posted by gooddays on April 28 2006,21:33

hi roberts and all others dsl users,i downloaded the dsl 2.4rc2.iso, and i have testing the new correction of xinitrc for non us keyboards,but...
the firefox browser does not display and do not accept the @ when the italian keyboard is select...
is possible 1 another solutions to fix this problem?
thanks for your interest for italian people! thanks thanks thanks

Posted by piccolo on April 30 2006,11:34

My spanish keyboard had same problem to write @ on FireFox
This solution was written before on DSL forum for italian keyboards and worked fine also for me.
Open ATerminal and type exactly:

xmodmap -e "remove mod4 = Mode_switch"
xmodmap -e "add mod5 = Mode_switch"

presto!

Posted by gooddays on April 30 2006,14:01

Quote (piccolo @ April 30 2006,07:34)

hi piccolo,i have try this method but the problem is remaining...
however,dsl 2.4 have this modified of xinitrc by default but my problem does not have fix. you know another possibilities?

Posted by piccolo on April 30 2006,16:10

Other idea, read the message written by Dsllars here:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....4&st=10 >