User Feedback :: keyboard change does *not* work



Hi everbody,

DSL is absolutely fantastic.  No doubt.  I love it, and I always have a copy in my wallet.  But there is one feature which I have never see work: the keyboard change utility in the control panel.

I have tried the Swiss keyboad and the Russian one, but nowhere does it change, the US qwerty keyboard remains the only one in the console and in, for example, Ted.

Did anyone ever have success with this?

Cheers,

VS
You have to give both
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dsl keyboard=XXX  xkeyboard=XXX

or
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dsl lang=XXX
at boot time
Hi,

Well, at boot time does not serve my needs, I need changing keyboards often.

I will try the
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dsl keyboard=XXX  xkeyboard=XXX
cheatcodes, but why not have this keyboard change executed from the control panel keyboard change option; in other words, what's the point of the control panel's keyboard change option - what does it actually do?!


Cheers,

VS
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but why not include such a script or, have this script executed from the control center keyboard change option; in other words, what's the point of the control center's keyboard change option - what does it actually do?!


It does a loadkeys on a keymap file.

Lets follow the code...

The control panel Keyboard button calls /usr/sbin/kbdconfig
Which simply selects the keymaps for user selection.
Then based on this selection call loadkeys.

Need more info do a man on loadkeys.
ok. but why does this do nothing which the user can see?!
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