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Posted: Mar. 02 2006,13:15 |
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The problem:
| Quote | | 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. |
pr0f3550r suggested that I try using booting cheatcodes (either | Code Sample | | dsl keyboard=XXX xkeyboard=XXX |
or to which I answered | Quote | | at boot time does not serve my needs, I need changing keyboards often (...) 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 |
You then suggested that we follow the code to see that what the control's keyboard change does. You said that what it did was | Quote | The control panel Keyboard button calls /usr/sbin/kbdconfig. Which simply selects the keymaps for user selection.
Then based on this selection call loadkeys. |
I then stressed that I still did not see | Quote | | why does this do nothing which the user can see?! |
What I meant is the following: when I press the change keyboard to try change my keyboard to a Swiss French or Russian keyboard I see no effect from this keyboard selection either in the terminal or in applications such as Ted.
So to sum up: the keyboard selection botton on the control panel seems to be designed to allow a keyboard change (like kxkb does in KDE). However, when I try using it I see no *effect* on my applications which still use the qwerty US keyboard.
It is quite possible that I am doing something wrong, that I am missing something. I can imagine that my lack of insight on the proper and correct purpose and usage of the keyboard change button might seem boring to far more expert DSL users. This realization is, however, not sufficient to solve my problem which is: HOW DO I GET A DIFFERENT KEYBOARD FOR TED?!
If that is not clear I am out of ideas to make this clear.
Now, as to your post: as a super moderator (with 1608 posts) I imagine that you should be used to obtuse, confused, intellectually challenged, "manual not reading" or otherwise DSL illiterate users and posters. No matter how exquisitely expert you are, I dare suggest that expression your frustration with far less expert DSL newbies in answer to their admittedly petty and boring concerns is rude. Even worse, such expressions of disdain and frustration does *nothing* to help the confused newbie and gives the GNU/Linux community a bad reputation.
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