Custom Keyboard layout in KDE 4.2

[Andreas Waldenburger]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:13:25 +0100 Kevin Kofler
<kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> > I'm using a customized version of the German Dvorak layout and I
> > would like KDE4 to use that. It used to work in KDE3 where I would
> > just copy my customized xkb_symbols into the de symbols file and
> > edit a lst file in xkb/rules.. (I've used
> > http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/computing/articles/custom-keyboard-layouts-xkb.html
> > for reference). Now that doesn't seem to work anymore.
> 
> I suspect this stopped working because of the switch to evdev, not
> because of KDE 4.
> 
Maybe. I can't seem to find any good information on evdev, so I'll ask
here: Anybody know how to set up by keyboard with evdev properly?


Any hints much appreciated.
/W