Hi James!

maybe I can help with this one.. 

James Harkins said :
> I have this in my ~/.profile
> 
> # keyboard pref
> setxkbmap us dvorak-classic
> 
> Yesterday I booted on a Dell laptop and it worked - it started up with the
> layout I want.
> 

this is running another distro or puredyne too?

> Now I'm on my netbook and it's ignored. But, if I type exactly the same 
> command
> by hand in xterm, it works!
> 
> I'm hard pressed to imagine why it would not work in the profile, but just on
> this machine?
> 
> Must be something I don't understand about the keyboard model.
> 

maybe the .profile doesn't get sourced, since the default shell in
puredyne is zsh. try adding the line to .zshrc and see if it works
then...

good luck!

karsten

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