changing keyboard ?Forum: User Feedback Topic: changing keyboard ? started by: bob314 Posted by bob314 on Oct. 27 2004,12:34
Hi,I'm french (nobody's perfect) and of course the first thing I want to do is to change to french keyboard (azerty, not qwerty). 1) I launch kbdconfig from the DSL control panel, I choose my favorite kbd, and ... nothing happens. 2) I call kbdconfig from a term, and I understand: this command can only be called by root. 3) "sudo su", then 2) again. Alas, my kbd still remains qwerty. What's wrong ? secondly, it could be nice if windows partitions could be automatically mounted. Posted by clacker on Oct. 27 2004,15:04
Hi, welcome to dsl.To change your keyboard try: crtl+alt+backspace (to kill X and all X applications) loadkeys fr (or se, de, es, or whatever you country code is) startx (to restart X) As a new user, you might also try using the search button on these forum pages. If you type in french keyboard into the search keywords, choose all open forums, and from the beginning, you'll find a wealth of information about changing keyboards. Posted by asz on Jan. 10 2005,22:07
Hi all!Like all in here says, what a wonderful distro! ... but, I tried the above, and it says that there is missing files. I am swedish and it looks WERY strange when mailing and writing. Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 10 2005,22:33
There is a section in the Docs about setting the keymap.Hope it's at least a little help. Posted by clacker on Jan. 11 2005,00:23
asz, did you look < here? > Perhaps the swedish keyboard is se-latin1
Posted by asz on Jan. 17 2005,09:45
Yupp it is, this row in the /etc/rc5.d/S99local made it for me:loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.kmap.gz I know this only affects runlevel 5, and maybe there is a better way to do it. But for now this works for me. Posted by schopenhauer101 on Jan. 25 2005,12:30
Sigh, i cant remember how many times this post i wrote a year ago has been mentioned:< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....l=swed% > Why not fix the bug instead, as mentioned here: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4185 > Have forgiveness about my complaints, but it is so boring to hear abot this bug all the time. A Swedish pc magazine distributed a CD with mixed linux distros on it and all i heard from the people i recomended dsl to was just "swedish keyboard do not work" instead of all the impressing stuff about dsl that makes me love it. Take care/ Björn Posted by tkatlanta1234567890 on Jan. 25 2005,22:41
I would appreciate a hint as to how to get a keyboard layout that puts the slash on the slash key without having to re-compile anything....... I think I've tried all the ENGLISH type designations (except the right one) but the slash is still an upper case 7.... from the control panel I make a choice .... light up OK... press enter.... slash is still above the 7.......... Thanks Ted in Atlanta Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 25 2005,22:47
By default, the keymap is set to 104key US (qwerty).What kind of keyboard are you using? (brand, model) Is it nonstandard? Even on my very strange keyboard (I have to remap like 13 keys every install) the / key is in the correct place. -J.P. Posted by tkatlanta1234567890 on Jan. 26 2005,01:00
It's a run of the mill IBM keyboard.... works with the default in KNOPPIX...DEBIAN ...REDHAT...GENTOO Of the many choices displayed .... which SPECIFIC one is the "standard" , english , forward slash on the marked key (not the upper case 7)??? Thanks Ted in Atlanta Posted by tkatlanta1234567890 on Jan. 26 2005,02:24
Fixed it !!! Replaced/Overlaid /etc/X11/XF86Config with XF86Config-4 from KNOPPIX 3.7 Keyboard works the way I'm used to seeing it. Thanks Ted in Atlanta |