Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

["Claudio Roberto França Pereira" <spideybr@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 14:54, James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 February 2012 09:10, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question
>> how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim,
>> but I haven't find any answer for this.
>> A few articles say that if the keyboard layout is set up in xorg.conf
>> than it will be okay. It doesn't work. I haven't find any option to
>> set up in /etc/slim.conf file and I also haven't find any information
>> about it in the gentoo documents.
>>
>> So, I would like to know that somebody does know the answer for this question?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> András
>
> I really doubt that slim has any keyboard-layout functionality - it
> should be defined by xorg.conf. It's possible that you have a complex
> DE (gnome/kde), which overrides the X settings when it loads, as I
> assume that your problem is only in slim, and not also in your DE.
>
> A look at your Xorg.0.log, and some more explanation of your situation
> would be helpful :)
>

The default and recommended "no xorg.conf" setup doesn't play nice
with keyboard layouts. You need to set one on your xorg.conf or
another X.org init script.

I love the idea that Xorg now just works (TM) without any
configuration file, but it could generate something based on what it
detected on the first time, or something.

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Claudio Roberto França Pereira