How have I got a US keymap?

devnull10 · 11-16-2010, 05:31 PM

Another woe after installing current, I now have a US keymap within X.

This is only within X though, from the terminal it is GB.

I have the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Load the keyboard map.  More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.
if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then
 /usr/bin/loadkeys uk.map
fi

and the following in /etc/hal/fdi/policy:

Code:

      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />

I was under the impression that these are the only two places where the keymap is held? I've diff'ed /etc/X11/xorg.conf and my backup from pre-current, but there are no changes between the old and the new.

hoodooman · 11-16-2010, 07:01 PM

What Desktop?I use Xfce.If you use this go to menu/settings/keyboard and change it to your needs.If you don't use Xfce hopefully someone else will post you the knowledge.

T3slider · 11-16-2010, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4Strings

Before the upgrade I used the two "hal" configuration files ("10-keymap.fdi" and "x11-synaptics.fdi" in "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/") in order to setup the Synaptic touchpad and the keybord map.
But, after the upgrade, these two configuration files seems to have no more effect!

So, according to LJSBrokken (thanks!

), I had to copy the two files "50-synaptics.conf" and "90-keyboard-layout.conf" from the directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/" to the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, and edit them properly!

X no longer uses HAL for that sort of thing and instead relies on udev to detect hardware. Therefore, keyboard configuration has switched back to Xorg's responsibility. Of course note that Xorg configurations now go in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, and use numbered files instead of one large xorg.conf file.

unclejed613 · 11-16-2010, 10:04 PM

KDE has a keyboard map selection menu in system settings>regional>keyboard

bathory · 11-17-2010, 12:53 AM

@OP

T3slider is right. Now everything is under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.
You need to copy the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf and customize it to fit your needs:

Code:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard-all"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Regards

devnull10 · 11-18-2010, 03:47 PM

Thanks - that has worked. I had no idea sorry that everything had been migrated to the xorg.conf.d directory. Just out of interest then, what do I actually need in there? Because from what I can see, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is still being used but things in xorg.conf.d are also being picked up. I currently only have the one keyboard file in there.
What should I be migrating into it's own file? And how should this be reflected in xorg.conf? Sorry to sound a bit dumb!