UK keyboard layout - not international

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-10-26, Richard Urwin <RUrwin at SRHSYSTEMS.com> wrote:
> When I installed Dapper (AMD64), it gave me a US keyboard layout. I selected
> the UK international layout in preferences, but this has two problems:
>
> 1. It's only for the current user.
> 2. Many keys have automatic compose functionality. I need to hit keys twice
> to get quotes, tilde and carat, otherwise they apply themselves as accents
> to the next character.
>
> How do I select a UK layout without having to double-hit keys? Preferably as
> a system-wide setting

What's in the keyboard section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?