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totoetsasoeur

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

slitaz rolling: how to set up keymap

Hi,

I am testing latest rolling (2012-Aug-26 18:19:40 build) on my laptop. Boot live CD.

I have a "qwerz" CH-latin1 keyboard. When setting key mapping using Slitaz tool (in french): Application-préférence-mappage clavier, it generates the correct output in file /etc/keymap.conf:

[c]tux@slitaz:~$ cat /etc/keymap.conf
fr_CH-latin1
tux@slitaz:~$[/c]
But this is not sufficient. If you log out and log in, the keymap is still the default one "us".

I had to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-Keyboard.conf to get the correct key mapping:

[c]tux@slitaz:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-Keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
        Option "XkbOptions" "latin1"
Endsection
tux@slitaz:~$[/c]
This time, after loging out and loging in, the key mapping is correct.

Cheers.

BugRaiser

Member

Registered: 2012-06-19

Posts: 39

Re: slitaz rolling: how to set up keymap

Thanks, totoetsasoeur.

I, too, was looking for ways to persist my keyboard layout, but I didn't manage to do it, until now. I tried adding a command to local.sh script, but that didn't work.

But updating 40-Keyboard.conf did it, so thank you again for sharing this.

totoetsasoeur

Moderator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 247

Re: slitaz rolling: how to set up keymap

You're welcome. Let's hope one dev guy will correct this.

I will share this on the mailing list, just to make sure it is not forgotten.

Happy slitaz. :-)

0liver

Member

Registered: 2012-08-30

Posts: 1

Re: slitaz rolling: how to set up keymap

Merci beaucoup, totoetsasoeur, for the solution you posted! If it wasn't for your help I probably would have dumped SliTaz - but now I have a working Polish keyboard! Just exchanged "ch" for "pl" in the 40-Keyboard.conf and it worked!