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Hi i did a major upgrade yesterday, having waited to do an upgrade for a few weeks because of wonky nvidia drivers i finally managed to Syu yesterday and upgraded 133 packages. Everything works fine it seems apart from one thing i noticed this morning, my keyboard layout has changed from the english GB one. any suggestions how i can change it?
here's the relative part of my rc.conf -
LOCALE="en_GB.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Europe/London"
KEYMAP="uk"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
not sure where else to look for changes. i run openbox desktop btw
Last edited by yabasta (2010-07-28 11:56:34)
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Did xorg get updated. If so any hal rules you set won't work. You will need to set the keyboard layout using xorg conf files.
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rc.conf has nothing to do at all with the layout used in X, See the link that loafer pasted, and the wiki page it links to.
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Thanks for the help loafer i'd changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf like so -
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
but that didn't work. so i followed the archwiki link http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#InputClasses from the news article you pasted. Seemed i needed to make a keyboard.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, which i did -
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
A quick logout and login and now i have my gb layout. Sadly my keyboard model isn't in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst so i can't set
"Xkbmodel" and get all the functions from my keyboard. never mind. thanks again for the help loafer
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yes, i thought as much. but i'm still a newb and was just trying to give some info, seems it was a futile gesture.
Last edited by yabasta (2010-07-28 11:55:48)
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> can't get all the functions from my keyboard
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext … ys_in_Xorg
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