Hello again, today I have compiled the tcsh without nls support. This solves my problem in X11. An other problem ist that the keymaps in SL-5x are not correct for newer keyboards. This affects (only) the console keybindings. Best regards, Olf Epler > > I'm not sure if tcsh has anything to do with it. > > I suggest you set $LC_ALL and $LANG to "en_US.utf8". Enter your keyboard > layout in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" (for the text console) and in > "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (for X apps). That's all. > > I'm attaching some excerpts from my config files. Aside from changing > "it" to -presumably- "de", they should work if you're using a standard > PC keyboard. > > > -----BEGIN /etc/X11/xorg.conf EXCERPT----- > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "kbd" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "it" > Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch" > EndSection > ------END /etc/X11/xorg.conf EXCERPT------ > > > -----BEGIN /etc/sysconfig/keyboard----- > KEYBOARDTYPE="pc" > KEYTABLE="it" > ------END /etc/sysconfig/keyboard------ > > > -----BEGIN /etc/csh.cshrc EXCERPT----- > setenv LC_ALL "en_US.utf8" > setenv LANG $LC_ALL > ------END /etc/csh.cshrc EXCERPT------ > ---------------------------------------------------------- Olf Epler phone: +49 30 2093-7804 Humboldt University Berlin fax: +49 30 2093-7642 Department of Physics Newtonstr. 15 12489 Berlin email: [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------