Thanks, it seems I was trying to edit permissions of a 'symbolic link' file. Lots of things to learn.

Another question. How do you convert .def files to .vkb files? I have read the howto document that comes with ukeyboard, it says run the "make" file. But there is no file named like that. There is a "Makefile" and it doesn't do anything when I try to run it using xterm.

(I have created a keyboard that works fine in ukeyboard)