Keyboardmap ?

[linuxmaillists at charter.net]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 01:03 -0400, 
linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > The X server does keyboard mapping of keys and you can
> > use X to map keys.  If you have an international
> > keyboard set up then X ships with compose functionality
> > which for the subset of symbols it does is usually
> > easier to learn.
> >
> > Basically hit alt (left alt to US folks) and shift
> > together, then let go of both, now type two keys in
> > sequence that compose the resulting symbol.
> >
> > Where is the file that this would be done in so this
> > would work?
>
> You can use the keyboard preferences GUI, and play with
> the layout options to set which key is the compose key. 
> Alt + Shift never worked for me, so I used the
> (otherwise) useless right-Windows key.  My preferences
> seem to be set, by it, in this file:
>
> /home/tim/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/%
>gconf.xml
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <gconf>
>         <entry name="options" mtime="1173340595"
> type="list" ltype="string"> <li type="string">
>                         <stringvalue>Compose key       
> compose:rwin</stringvalue> </li>
>         </entry>
> </gconf>

Does any one know where/what the file I need would be on a 
KDE system?

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