User Feedback :: keyboard change does *not* work



Let's forget about the control panel for a second and try this instead.

What happens if you boot with:

dsl xsetup

and then you choose your keyboard before XWindows even starts up.  Does the new keyboard layout go into effect?

Also, please try testing multiple apps, IE: TED, Beaver, Xterminal, etc.
Hi cbagger01,

I tried this with some rather interesting results.  When I tried the ru1 keyboard nothing happend, nothing worked and the US qwerty keyboard was still there in Ted, Beaver, the Bash terminal, Sylpheed, Siag, Nano, Vi and the non-X terminal. (with xvesa 1024x768, 32)

Then I tried the the Swiss French (latin1) keyboard (with xvsea 1024x768, 24).  This time, I got the correct keyboard including all the accents except with Beaver which did not want to show the accented letters.

BTW - I use DSL 2.2b

I had to leave that station so I did not run more test, but I will gladly try something else.

Also - I also tried to change the Swiss French keyboard back to the US qwery one (using the control panel).  That did not work either.

Ok. that all I can report for the time being.  Thanks for any pointer!
This is an important matter, especially for non-english speaking people, not only because you can't use accents, but also because you have to keep guessing where in your keyboard dashes, slashes and other characters are.
I am using dsl 2.0 live CD and have tried to set up both the portuguese keyboards available (latin1 pt  and pt-old) without success. I have tried the dsl lang=pt boot option and the control panel.
Apart from this, I am quite happy with dsl!
Thanks for any help.
There is a portugese language package in the DSL repository. I had set it up and used it successfully with DSL 1.5. (There are certain apps that simply don't use it though.)
I suspect it would work with DSL 2.2b and higher as well.
Also, the command to setup a keymap can be most easily loaded using xsetup. The residing Portuguese keymap in X may well work using this method. Give it a try.
OK, since I was bored, I went and tried the keyboard change button aand using the br-abnt2 selection in X setup (which is what pops up when you use that button) You then need to exit X and then startx to begin a new X session with the changes applied. It worked quite well. I changed the resolution while I was at it and that also worked. The Brazilian Portuguese accents worked fine in Ted, but not in Beaver. This is a limitation of Beaver. I didn't try it in anything else.
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