[gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

[gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

[Grant]

My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I
press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen.  I
changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to:

KEYMAP="es"

and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

[Benno Schulenberg]

Grant wrote:
> I changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to:
>
> KEYMAP="es"
>
> and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have
> changed.

The keymap where?  The keymap on the console should be es after the 
above change.  To change it in X too, use Option "XkbLayout" "es" in 
xorg.conf, or set it with 'setxkbmap es' from the commandline.  Or 
set it using the KDE or Gnome Control Center.

Benno
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Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Grant wrote:
> My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I
> press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen.  I
> changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to:
>
> KEYMAP="es"
>
> and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed.
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> - Grant
You also need to add the keymaps init script to your boot runlevel

rc-update add keymaps boot

Cheers,
Jay

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Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

[Grant]

> > I changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to:
> >
> > KEYMAP="es"
> >
> > and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have
> > changed.
>
> The keymap where?  The keymap on the console should be es after the
> above change.  To change it in X too, use Option "XkbLayout" "es" in
> xorg.conf, or set it with 'setxkbmap es' from the commandline.  Or
> set it using the KDE or Gnome Control Center.

Thanks, that worked perfectly.

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Keymap for Spanish laptop

[Jakob Buchgraber]

Grant wrote:
>> > My girlfriend is from Spain as is her laptop and many of the keys I
>> > press don't coincide with the characters printed on the screen.  I
>> > changed /etc/conf.d/keymap to:
>> >
>> > KEYMAP="es"
>> >
>> > and rebooted but the keymap behavior doesn't seem to have changed.
>> > Does anyone know how to fix this?
>> >
>> > - Grant
>> You also need to add the keymaps init script to your boot runlevel
>>
>> rc-update add keymaps boot
>
> So that updates my keymap for the console?  It must default to "us" then?
>
> - Grant
As far as I am informed the keymaps init script sets the console keymap 
to the value of the KEYMAP variable.

Cheers,
Jay

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