11.6.2. Keyboard mapping configuration

The preferences dialog allows you to choose up to two keyboard mappings. This allows you to choose the keymap of your choice for your U.S.-style keyboard. You can choose primary and secondary keyboard languages and then select which one you want to use.

Click on the down arrow for the Primary combobox and choose the language keymap you want by clicking on it. The name them appears in the Primary window. Do the same in the Secondary window for a secondary language if you want one. You can then select either your primary or secondary keymap in the Mapping section of the menu, or select No key mapping if you do not want to use an alternate keymap.

The Character set window allows you to use different character sets if your language uses more than one. Greek, for example, uses two, and a Greek user can enter iso-8859-7 in this window and the appropriate character map (a .cdef file), if available, is loaded.

Note that one of the choices for both primary and secondary keymaps is Other. You can use this to select a custom keymap which you've created yourself. For example, current distributions of LyX provide an american-2 keymap file in the $LYX_DIR/kbd directory. This keymapping supports some accented characters for other languages in addition to the U.S. keymap. To use the american-2 keymap, select the Options->Keyboard menu, select other in the primary selection box, enter the name of the keymap (american-2) and click on OK. You should now be able to enter accent characters using the new keymap.