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My keyboard layout

Although I have to write a lot of text in German (email, chat, ...), my keyboard has got an US layout because I find programming more comfortable this way. But I need an international variant to type umlauts. Additionally I like to replace the Caps Lock key with an additional Control key. I find this more comfortable in bash and Emacs.

I use setxkbmap to set up my keyboard layout. This is my command:

setxkbmap -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option ctrl:nocaps

This command is called in my fvwm2 StartFunction so I do not have to enter this by hand:

DestroyFunc StartFunction
AddToFunc   StartFunction
# ... some configuration code
# My keyboard mapping
+ I Test (Init) Exec exec setxkbmap -layout us -variant altgr-intl -option ctrl:nocaps
# ... some more configuration code