Configure your keyboard layout

If you are a translator you may want to configure your keyboard according to your wishes. For example you may want the character "l" to appear when you type the key "l", and a "ł" character to appear when you press ALT_GR+l. This is modifying your keyboard layout. To do it, find out your distribution and proceed accordingly:

Ubuntu 8.04

open a console and cd into /etc/X11/xkb/symbols. Now you must know which keyboard layout you are using. It can be de if you are in Germany or pl if you are in Poland and so on. Open this layout file, e.g.

kwrite de

You will see a lot of key definitions like

   key <AC11> { [ l, L, lstroke, Lstroke ] };