~jhs/public_html/dots/.xmodmap/notes cd ; ln -s ~jhs/public_html/dots/.xmodmap xmodmap ~/.xmodmap/german mk@ 2013-07-20 said she did not want Germann KBD, but if she did it could be done on .xsession Keyboard layout with xmodmap: Must be done after X is running & display is found So not eg by .login Laptop internal British keyboard is done with ~/.xsession External USB american keyboard initialised by /etc/devd/berklix.conf (but if external USB is plugged in before X session starts, xmodmap will fail, so do it manually). See Also: man xmodmap xev also shows X mappings /usr/ports/misc/hotkeys