XKB not working

[Hans Werner Strube]

> From: Edmund Urbani <emu@emu.no-ip.org>
>
> "Pille Geert (bkarnd)" wrote:
> 
> > I'm very satisfied with this solution to get my belgian keyboard working:
> >
> >  xkbcomp -xkm -m be /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /tmp/be.xkm
> >
> >  XWin +kb -xkbmap be -auth "$HOME/.Xauthority" -emulate3buttons
> >
> 
> Thanks a lot. That works perfectly fine for me too.

This also works for German (de instead of be), although xkbcomp issued
many warnings about missing keycodes (possibly due to the laptop keyboard,
having less keys). But how can one make de.xkm the default, without
having to specify -xkbmap de each time? According to /etc/X11/xkm/README,
I tried copying de.xkm to /etc/X11/xkb/X0-default.xkm or
/etc/X11/xkb/compiled/X0-default.xkm, but without success. (Of course, I first
made the missing symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> /etc/X11/xkb, removed the
looping symlink /etc/X11/xkb/compiled and made this a real directory.)