On Wed, February 10, 2010 3:20 pm, James Harkins wrote: > 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 >
or maybe you could put this into a script and lauch it via 'Main Menu' -> 'Settings' -> 'Session and Startup'? I think that could be a good solution. greetings, karsten --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
