On Thursday 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi list, > > I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to > date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the > hell it's been. > > Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's one > problem that I just can't fix or find relevant discussion about. > > My /etc/conf.d/keymaps defines my keyboard layout as "uk" and this works > fine in the console. Unfortunately, in gnome the keyboard is resolutely > stuck on US. I can add the English UK layout in the keyboard preferences, > and it looks fine when I first select it. However they layout doesn't > change and when I "Show" the English UK layout, it shows a standard US > layout. > > No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X > stuff that well), I cannot get a decent keyboard layout in gnome. > > Any tips would be appreciated before I rip all the keys off and get the > super glue out. > > Thanks
Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add something like this:
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Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard catchall"
Driver "evdev"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection
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Or add similar lines to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf;
Or copy your /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and then add the lines above.
PS. There may be a Gnome way of achieving the same, but I only have cursory
experience of Gnome so somebody else should advise on that.
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Regards,
Mick
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