Hi, there is a keyboard applet available xfce panel which i think is the right place for adding the right keyboard layout.
James Harkins said : > On Feb 9, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Karsten Gebbert wrote: > > >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? > > No, all puredyne. > > Actually I was wrong - just rebooted it on the Dell and it also > requires extra intervention to get the keyboard. So it's not > machine-specific. > > >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... > > This does work, provided I open xterm before doing anything else. > The keyboard right after logging in is still not the one I want. > > I guess I could tweak the profile to launch xterm :) > hjh > > > : H. James Harkins > : [email protected] > : http://www.dewdrop-world.net > .::!:.:.......:.::........:..!.::.::...:..:...:.:.:.:..: > > "Come said the Muse, > Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, > Sing me the universal." -- Whitman > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne -- | |'`'. .''. .. | ' .' '. .` '. |-----`.----.'------- '------------. | '..' `. ' | `..' | --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
