From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QrdNn-0000vC-I7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:05:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D13A721C382; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:05:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A0921C394 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so2327890wyg.40 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:04:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=SLwgbCKQ8aqh4UDrvWBIFx91Q6VKQ5ptl+qyCBKwIew=; b=F0SfU59f7ultgPR1Gy8j5ITELWURzr/mXfLooQpDXY/iLFzQgJSyjViUEn/7pWisXm gvA8Mw271Q9cXFl4mBRiZzdcPg50l/PYgfLIz/QG9eccDH9RCCYr7gflq5BTcb0lUX3Q y/3QgWz/tlA4WKX6xFhMZJJ8HRVra8PDCM/mY= Received: by 10.227.169.199 with SMTP id a7mr100498wbz.93.1313100243669; Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fg5sm1860928wbb.40.2011.08.11.15.04.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:04:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:04:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110811201459.GA7991@genestate.com> In-Reply-To: <20110811201459.GA7991@genestate.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3256837.dz6qzfUbZn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108112304.48705.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3153992b76c88229194c08400a47c6e5 --nextPart3256837.dz6qzfUbZn Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday 11 Aug 2011 21:14:59 Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi list, >=20 > I've just spent the last 4 days or so trying to get an old laptop up to > date. It hasn't been sync'd for at least 8 months so you can imagine the > hell it's been. >=20 > Anyway, I've managed to get everything nicely updated but there's one > problem that I just can't fix or find relevant discussion about. >=20 > My /etc/conf.d/keymaps defines my keyboard layout as "uk" and this works > fine in the console. Unfortunately, in gnome the keyboard is resolutely > stuck on US. I can add the English UK layout in the keyboard preferences, > and it looks fine when I first select it. However they layout doesn't > change and when I "Show" the English UK layout, it shows a standard US > layout. >=20 > No matter what I do (which admittedly isn't very much as I don't know X > stuff that well), I cannot get a decent keyboard layout in gnome. >=20 > Any tips would be appreciated before I rip all the keys off and get the > super glue out. >=20 > Thanks Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add something like this: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Section "InputClass" Identifier "keyboard catchall" Driver "evdev" MatchIsKeyboard "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" EndSection =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Or add similar lines to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf;=20 Or copy your /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf to=20 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and then add the lines above. PS. There may be a Gnome way of achieving the same, but I only have cursory= =20 experience of Gnome so somebody else should advise on that. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3256837.dz6qzfUbZn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk5EUgAACgkQVTDTR3kpaLam7QCfUmj6Xadi3OOedIcR7mWd5NbH HvkAoNwz4LKsXlOmhTYdtPsAcCOor/X6 =+rDg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3256837.dz6qzfUbZn--