On 07/17/2010 06:18 PM, Samuel Penn wrote:
Hi all,I've decided to have a play with Xfce (4.6.1, on Gentoo) but I'm having some keyboard issues. I can't see to get a UK layout on my keyboard. It works fine in KDE. I've tried the Keyboard Layouts plugin, and I've also added options into xorg.conf[1] as suggested by some Googling, but I haven't been able to get a UK keyboard map. Can anyone provide any suggestions? [1] I added this to xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection
I had this problem after installing Slackware 13.1 and XFCE 4.6.1 I don't remember having it with previous versions. Slackware still uses hal, which I understand is on its way out. If your system doesn't use hal, this may not help. I had to copy the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy and edit it. The line <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge> needs to be changed so that "us" becomes "gb" I don't know why this is necessary, or what XFCE does if the system isn't running hal. MikeD -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
