Re: [Hampshire] xfce4 and keyboards

2010-07-19 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Sun, Jul 18 at 01:11, Samuel Penn wrote: ... It does use hal, and that did help. I can now start typing properly. Just a word of warning HAL is on it's way out. Already gone for those of us on the Gentoo ~x86 front edge. When you next upgrade your X server you'll probably have to

Re: [Hampshire] xfce4 and keyboards

2010-07-18 Thread Mike Dwerryhouse
On 07/17/2010 06:18 PM, Samuel Penn wrote: Hi all, I've decided to have a play with Xfce (4.6.1, on Gentoo) but I'm having some keyboard issues. I can't see to get a UK layout on my keyboard. It works fine in KDE. I've tried the Keyboard Layouts plugin, and I've also added options into

Re: [Hampshire] xfce4 and keyboards

2010-07-18 Thread Samuel Penn
On Sunday 18 July 2010 12:15:47 you wrote: I had this problem after installing Slackware 13.1 and XFCE 4.6.1 I don't remember having it with previous versions. Slackware still uses hal, which I understand is on its way out. If your system doesn't use hal, this may not help. It does use hal,

[Hampshire] xfce4 and keyboards

2010-07-17 Thread Samuel Penn
Hi all, I've decided to have a play with Xfce (4.6.1, on Gentoo) but I'm having some keyboard issues. I can't see to get a UK layout on my keyboard. It works fine in KDE. I've tried the Keyboard Layouts plugin, and I've also added options into xorg.conf[1] as suggested by some Googling, but I