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keyboard layout in linux (kanotix)

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First post, by guest

Posted on 2005-09-10, 04:26

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Hi.

I just left windows and trying a linux distribution now. First thing was to install goodold dosbox, which is without doubt a really nice program. Thanks for development. I really enjoy the good old games with dosbox.

But Im having a lot of trouble with the keyboard layout. Im from Germany and most all of the keys are with a different meaning than I can read on the keyboard's keys. Not much fun to search one key / the correct and needed one key out of 111 keys.

Is there any way to get plain german keyboard control? Just imagine...youre looking for a slash (on a german keyboard its by pressing shift and 7) but youll find it on the numerous block far away somewhere. Same problem with double punctuation. That would be shift and . Currently theres not just one key which produces a ":". So i cant switch to drive c for example.

I have tried the keymapper here. No go. If I remap a key, lets say /, it produces me 2 signs when typing it (- and / ). Furthermore there is no way to assign shift + . for example. Im trying since 2 hours now - please help 😀

The best would be, just to get full german keyboard support. The keymapper seems to be an enemy to me 🙁

Regards,
Marcel

(Dont get me wrong, dosbox is a quite nice program!)

Reply 1 of 4, by mirekluza

Posted on 2005-09-10, 07:45

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What about KEYB from FreeDOS (it is mentioned in documentation...).

Mirek

Reply 2 of 4, by Guest

Posted on 2005-09-10, 08:27

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Ill have a look on this. Thanks for hint 😉

Just found the debian and some other usefull documentations in usr/share/doc/dosbox. Im sure I can help myself from now on 😉

(Well, I should register myself though here 😀)

Regards,
Marcel

Reply 3 of 4, by nocturnal

Posted on 2005-09-12, 18:36

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hmm i've tried posting twice but my posts don't seem to get posted, i can't reach the site because it's so slow and giving me mysql errors and i have the same problem, i can't really use dosbox without mounting c and going to it and thats impossible without : or /

Reply 4 of 4, by none

Posted on 2005-09-13, 09:42

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Hi Noc.

I managed it temporarly by adding the necessary lines in the dosbox-conf.

At me its (as an example only!):
mount c /home/dos/
c:
dir /w

(maybe that varies, cant look for details now because Im with WinXP on here)

The trick is, outside DosBox the keyboard is with the layout you know. So you can add these lines before starting dosbox to your dosbox.conf and will find yourself right inside the folder you want arrive to after starting the doxbox. Surely , just a small workaround, but it works 😀

I will try getting a full german keyboard layout later. Not much time to handle with Linux around currently 😉 But with Linux all applications/games are for some strange reasons faster than in WindowsXP?! Except getting no midi so far, Im pleased with the linux dosbox. Continue on trying to get it work in Linux, Noc. Worth the try.

Greetings.

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