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Hi, I have a problem.
I installed debian sarge and installed russian language support (don't remember what I chose - must have been something during the installation phase). Here is what bothers me. When I press ctrl - instead of russian it just types some weard characters (not russian letters). How to I
a) remove russian language from the shell
or at least
b) disable right ctrl button for switching languges. i want it to function as a regular ctrl button.
Never dealt with Sarge, but still...
Character set switching is taken care of by the /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or something like /etc/X11/X86config).
You will find something like
This didn't work for me. Below are the files that I have. You can notice that there is no such line there:
This is one of the files it has:
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
This is the second file. (Don't know which one my system is using :-(. I think that it uses the lower one.
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Didn't work. I changed it in both files, just in one file, commented out this line:
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
Didn't work. Another question. I may be wrong, but doesn't this file influenses X server? I don't need it for X server. I need it for the shell (alt+F1, alt+f2 etc...)
I'm terribly sorry for misleading you, Timur.
Of course, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is a configuration file for the X11 server.
So, you want to disable/fix Russian keyboard support in your shell.
Well, I never needed to type anything non-Latin in the shell, so I just searched this site and found this. This may also be helpful if read carefully and adapted to your case.
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