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


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