Keyboard / Keymap Problem

[Matthew Shaylor]

I have a B2000 with HP-UX 11 installed as well as the latest version of Gnome using a British keyboard. The problem I have is that the '|' [pipe] key is typed it doesn't work! I see a '|' character but it doesn't perform the pipe action. When I telnet into another machine and type a '|' I see '&' [ampersand] so I'm guessing that this is the character that is getting though to the shell and causing my errors.

Has anyone got any ideas where I've gone wrong and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks,
Matthew.

[melvyn burnard]

what is /etc/kbdlang set to?

It could be set to US keyboard.
If unsure, mv it out of the way as a backup (not copy) an dthen reboot.
The system should see the file is missing, and ask you to select the keyboard type.
HTH

[Josh_13]

sounds like the type is set incorrectly.
if not you can always add a stty command to remap it into your profile.

[Alex Glennie]

Also worth checking is the output from xmodmap -pke .... I had a discussion on this about a month or so ago but have been unable to find the thread : same problem pipe and gnome : try the search facility you maybe luckier than I ....

[Matthew Shaylor]

I'm pretty convinced that its not a kbdlang problem for two reasons, firstly it displays a bar which it wouldn't otherwise. Secondly it worked under CDE :)

I found the old thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x35ba28e43106d6118ff40090279cd0f9!0,00.html

That discusses it in length. Basically running:
xmodmap -e "keycode 28 = backslash bar" solves the problem.

Question: Is there a config file I can change to make this change permanent? Failing that would putting it in my .bashrc or .profile file work?

[Alex Glennie]

Hi,

If it were me I'd run xmodmap via my .profile or similar.

to do this on a system wide basis I'd try adding the xmodmap entry to either my Xsession file or via an Xsession.d script : see the /usr/dt/config directory .... I think this will still be read or used when X starts even though gdm not CDE is running.

Another alternative would be to use

keymap_ed to edit the /usr/lib/X11/XHPKeymaps file.

[Andy McDade]

I have tried the xmodmap -e command and still I get ^ae from the \| key (I'm using my PC to type this mail).
I also do not get a ?? sign out of the 3?? key - I get , well it looks like ^a with a ~ over it.

Any more ideas, as I cannot get my pipe symbol working in gnome, with my UK keyboard.