Re: [Ltsp-discuss] French Canadian Keyboards

Gudmund Areskoug Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:54:10 -0800

Hi,

I'm fairly much a newbie in things LTSP and servers. Have only been using and fiddling a little with K12LTSP 3.x until I got a server HD crash and subsequent urgent upgrade in my lap, and went on to set up a SUSE 9.1 + LTSP 4.1 and migrate stuff to it.

I checked the mail archives for hints, and found this thread. I also found interesting but a bit meager info in the doc page at http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1-1-en.html under "9.2.5. Keyboard parameters".

Ondrej Rusek wrote:

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:59:36PM -0400, Mathieu Nantel wrote:

I'm switching between french canadian and US english here once in a while. I'm running LTSP, but AFAIK this has nothing to do with LTSP's config. I just switch keyboard layout in Gnome's Keyboard config panel. I'm getting a funny X11 error, but it still does work.


You can switch keyboard with ltsp.conf (LTSP4), like this:

-- list of my lts.conf ------------------------
        # Keyboards
        # XkbSymboles        = "us(pc101)"
        XkbRules           = "xfree86"
        XkbModel           = "pc101"
        # XkbLayout          = "us"
        XkbLayout          = "cz,us"
        XkbCompat          = "group_led"
        XkbOptions         = "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp:switch"
--- end of listing ----------------------------

This is example of switching between czech and english keyboard on the
LTSP client.

For this you have to make some changes in
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/build_x4_cfg. See the list of diff file:

---- list of diff file -------------
24c24
< # echo "Building the /tmp/XF86Config-4 file" >/dev/tty
---

echo "Building the /tmp/XF86Config-4 file" >/dev/tty

43d42
<         InputDevice     "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"
124,138d122
< #----- BEGIN - changes for using more keymaps together  -----
< # Example of specification keymaps in lts.conf:
< #       XkbLayout = "cs,us"
< #       XkbSymboles        = "us(pc101)"
< #     XkbRules           = "xfree86"
< #       XkbModel           = "pc101"
< #       XkbLayout          = "cz,us"
< #     XkbCompat          = "group_led"
< #     XkbOptions         = "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp:switch"
< #
<        Option      "XkbRules"  "${XKBRULES}"
<        Option      "XkbCompat" "${XKBCOMPAT}"
<        Option      "XkbOptions" "${XKBOPTIONS}"
< #------ END  ----------------------------------
<
----------- end of list ------------

Now I wonder, does this enable users on the (thin) clients to use e. g. KDE's keyboard layout setting to switch keyboards?

And can the entry
XkbLayout          = "cz,us"
be prolonged into e. g.
XkbLayout          = "cz,us,se,ru,ar"
etc. ?

I'll definitely try these things out myself, but am not on site ATM.

How about we compile this stuff once we've charted it out, and send as feedback to the core guys? Or are they listening in?

TIA, BR,
Gudmund

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