How to setup international keyboard in X Windows with Xmodmap

by Juraj Sipos, xvudpapc@savba.sk

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright
• 1.2 Revision history
• 1.3 Introduction

2. Setting up international keyboard in X Windows with Xmodmap

• 2.1 Quick start
• 2.2 How to do it
• 2.3 This experimental or nonstandard solution is not necessary for newer versions of XFree86
• 2.4 Xmodmap theory and standard Xmodmap solution
• 2.5 Experimental .Xmodmap sample file for the Slovak language typewriter layout
• 2.6 Character sets
• 2.7 ISO-8859-2 (ISO Latin2) character set
• 2.8 The standard ISO8859-2 definitions in the Xmodmap file

3. How this Xmodmap solution works on various systems

• 3.1 SuSE 6.4 and 7.0
• 3.2 SuSE 7.0 with Xfree86 version 3.3.6 and KDE 1.x
• 3.3 Mandrake Linux 7.2
• 3.4 RedHat 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 (XFree86 3.3.6 and older)
• 3.5 FreeBSD 3.1 and 3.2
• 3.6 FreeBSD 4.1
• 3.7 Corel Linux 1.0 and 1.1
• 3.8 ISO* specifications

4. Some national Xmodmap files

• 4.1 German
• 4.2 Hungarian
• 4.3 Czech
• 4.4 Polish
• 4.5 French
• 4.6 Croatian/Slovenian
• 4.7 Lithuanian keyboard (AZERTY layout)
• 4.8 Polish

5. Some Xmodmap tips