Get french keyboard after install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Get french keyboard after install
started by: Stephane

Posted by Stephane on Mar. 10 2004,15:01

Hi,

I did an HD-install with dsl-hdinstall
It's fine...
... but I can't get anymore french keyboard.

I've tried:
root@box~# loadkeys fr
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/azerty/fr.kmap.gz
root@box~#

But keyboard stands us.

What should I do?

Thank you very much.
--
Stephane.

Posted by guido on Mar. 10 2004,17:08

Afther this you must do : startx

Regards,
Guido

Posted by WonderAboutLinux on Mar. 16 2004,18:27

I have the same problem excpet that I want my keyboard to be swedish, I tried "startx" didn't work! Does anybody have a better idea?

WonderAboutLinux

Posted by skaos on Mar. 17 2004,12:45

You have to kill X first (by crtl+alt+backspace), then use 'loadkeys fr' and finally restart X by startx. If you have a hd install you can put 'loadkeys fr' in one of the startup files so that you don't have to do this manually every time you boot the pc.

Posted by nozer on Mar. 17 2004,17:12

sorry,
which startup files do you mean precisely?
i tried .xinitrc but due to the startx it became a loop.
i also tried to rename the default.keymap.gz but it wont work either, after boot its still us, typing
loadkeys -d
startx
then its on de
so?

Posted by Stephane on Mar. 18 2004,11:01

Hi,

It is OK:

I put "loadkeys fr" in /etc/init.d/xsession before X is launch.

Thank you very much!

'hope you'll understand the froggy way I write english.
--
Stephane.

Posted by lemhanover on Mar. 19 2004,13:04

Try this previous post for a permanent method. Note that you copy your desired mop over the us qwerty.
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Larry

Posted by nozer on Mar. 19 2004,14:14

yeah i tried this one too but wasnt succesful

the way i got it work is as follows:

# cd /etc/init.d
# vi knoppix-autoconfig

then change the localization part from us to de:
... LANGUAGE="de"

cheers