Keymap missing after upgrade
 

I'm running Kanotix (testing/unstable) on my laptop. The laptop has a Swiss German keyboard layout. After upgrading a number of packages via synaptic, my Swiss German keymap (de_CH?) seems to have disappeared. I initially tried to selectthe Swiss German layout via KDE's control center but that didn't work. It does, however, work for other layouts. I then checked /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz and noticed that there is no de_CH keymap. The fr_CH keymaps are available.

Any suggestions on what I can do to get it back?

If you simply do in an xterm :

setxkbmap ch

Do you get the right layout?

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kloss,

Thanks. I tried that and it works. How can I ensure that that remains the selected layout?

Btw, I found out that the keymap for Swiss German is sg-latin1 and I do have that present in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz

Cheers
Joe

Change the following line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"

Imho the file for your keyboard is /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ch, not /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/sg-latin1.kmap.gz. I think it works with only "ch" because the default variant in the ch file is german.

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Thanks kloss, that did the trick. Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks kloss!
Your hint helped me in a moment of mental derangement ;-)
Couldn't type any pipes (|) anymore.
-danu