[ILUG] Xfree86, terminals and £ character

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "DOC" == Donncha O Caoimh <donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com> writes:

    DOC> I installed Debian on my work machine, and everything is ok,
    DOC> except for the £ character. It appears correctly in Netscape,
    DOC> but I tried it in all the installed xterms (eterm,
    DOC> gnome-terminal, rxvt, and xterm) and the # character is
    DOC> printed with a carriage return!  When installing X using
    DOC> anXious I didn't see any option to select a UK keyboard, so
    DOC> plumpted for a US one. When I discovered the above problem I
    DOC> copied the following lines from my old Red Hat XF86Config

    DOC>    XkbKeycodes     "xfree86"
    DOC>    XkbTypes        "default"
    DOC>    XkbCompat       "default"
    DOC>    XkbSymbols      "us(pc101)"
    DOC>    XkbGeometry     "pc"
    DOC>    XkbRules        "xfree86"
    DOC>    XkbModel        "pc101"
    DOC>    XkbLayout       "gb"

    DOC> That works fine in Red Hat which is annoying me now!

I think XbkModel, XkbKeycodes and XkbLayout are all that's necessary;
the rest are deduced from those three.

Try setting it to pc102; US keyboards are what pc101 is for.

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