-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Neil Bird wrote: > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:18:42 +0000 > From: Neil Bird <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; > rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 > autolearn=unavailable version=3.2.3 > Subject: Re: Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected. > > > After a bit more googling, I can see: > > $ lshal|grep input.xkb|sort -u > input.xkb.layout = 'us' (string) > input.xkb.model = 'evdev' (string) > input.xkb.options = 'terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp' (string) > input.xkb.rules = 'base' (string) > input.xkb.variant = '' (string) > > > Which may pertain. Where'd that 'us' come from? My xorg.conf says: > > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Copy /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi: replace <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge> with <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">uk</merge> us can be replaced by uk, fr, etc. - your choice. Reboot. Gabriel - -- // Gabriel VLASIU // // OpenGPG-KeyID : 0xE684206E // OpenGPG-Fingerprint: 0C3D 9F8B 725D E243 CB3C 8428 796A DB1F E684 206E // OpenGPG-URL : http://www.vlasiu.net/public.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLp3FleWrbH+aEIG4RAli9AJ9F4kqne+9HvV1Rc+5HxHkosWS76ACfSW4B uDctlkn3gtLa/LJT00IRPzw= =6/C8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I found another way that seems to work, and does not require any changes to /etc files or copying from /var Assume you are using gnome. Then add "keyboard layout indicator" to the panel and set it to your preferred keyboard layout. Use the options to delete all keyboards you do not want to see. Then irrespective of the keyboard shown in the Gnome signon panel, it appears or will keep the one you originally chose from the keyboard layout setting ------------------ Regards Leslie Mr. Leslie Satenstein |
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