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How to use French Canadian keyboard?
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Guillaume777
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 |
Hello, the keyboard I use (laptop french canadian keyboard) could not be found while installing Puppy.... meaning I cannot properly use most of my keys. |
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ttuuxxx
 Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Hi well I'm also a Canadian who can speak French also, But thats another story, Basically when a Canadian needs help, I'll always try to help, Well I can understand the layout differences between a standard layout and a specialty keyboard. I have found some useful files but you might need someone else to look at them to get them working for you. I tried for about 1hr and managed to get about 90% installed and then a dead end. well here are the files locations. Try to get someone to package it so in the future others could have a easy fix also. ttuuxxx French Canadian keyboard map (2229 bytes) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/keyboards/cf.map.gz French-canadian configuration files for xkb (6303 bytes) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/keyboards/french-canadian-xkb-0.2.tar.gz Also i read this somewhere Slide 26: 100 Linux Tips and Tricks Tip 18: International console Most Linux distributions are configured to use a US english keyboard. If you need to write on a french or any other kind of keyboard, you will want to change the locale so special keys like accents appear in the console. The way to do this is to change the system locale with a program called loadkeys. For example, to enable a canadian-french locale, you need to add this line in your startup files: loadkeys cf Here cf means the canadian-french keyboard. Other locales are us, fr and more. 22 _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games 
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
also I found this post , http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=86597&sid=3c0385feb4b5c83e513d7c99feb8b733 ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Also there is a french canadian linux distro based on slackware called AliXe it has the keyboard mappings included, http://pages.ccapcable.com/alisou/cms/?English_section 329mb ISO SIZE, what i was thinking you could "borrow" the missing files if the previous ones didn't work for you
ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
If you want to manually remap your keyboard, you can use Xmodmap , I looked around and even found a package already made, here's a link to the forum page, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3447&highlight=xkeycaps ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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Guillaume777
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 |
Thank you a lot ttuuxxx, I will try to get it working. |
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Dougal
 Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 2505 Location: Hell more grotesque than any medieval woodcut |
In the menu select setup-->Mouse/keyboard wizard. Then choose the "advanced" option. There you'll need to setup your "layout" and "variant". I'm not sure how it should go, so try one of the following: - set the layout to "ca" and see if there's a variant for French, or "multi" or something. - set the layout to "fr" and the variant to "ca" (if available) -- I know this is how Swiss-French used to work. _________________ What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it's your mind |
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Djof
Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 124 Location: Riki,QC,Canada |
I'm also a french canadian(Bas saint laurent... loin de tout...) and I found out that dougal's fix is the best (if you want to keep it simple) the canadian keyboard map with the french legacy dvorak variant is the closest you can get to the sweeeet frencg canadian keyboard |
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