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#1 2009-02-18 18:26:31

clodhopper
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Registered: 2008-02-07
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[Solved]Rox filer and UK keyboard.

Hi,

Can anyone give a hand here?.

All apps EG Seamonkey,text editor,terminal are correctly using this UK keyboard except Rox filer which is using  a US keymap instead when EG setting a run action,

xorg.conf is set with;
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"

rc.conf is set with;
KEYMAP="uk"

Thanks,Chris.

Last edited by clodhopper (2009-02-19 01:26:06)

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#2 2009-02-19 01:29:30

clodhopper
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Re: [Solved]Rox filer and UK keyboard.

When Rox-lib is installed it changes the filer keymap to US.De-install rox-lib and rox filer reverts to the default X keymap IE the UK one on this machine.

Could not find any other solution here,from Google or at Rox homepage.

Best Wishes Chris.

Last edited by clodhopper (2009-02-19 01:32:57)

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#3 2009-02-19 19:29:39

dunc
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From: Glasgow, UK
Registered: 2007-06-18
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Re: [Solved]Rox filer and UK keyboard.

Weird. I have rox-lib installed here:

$ pacman -Qs rox-lib
local/rox-lib 2.0.4-1 (rox-desktop)
    Shared code which can be used by other ROX applications. This is rox-lib2

...and have no keymap trouble.

I thought your problem was odd when I first saw it, but didn't say anything because I didn't really have any answers beyond "works okay here". Still, if uninstalling rox-lib works for you, I suppose... hmm


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#4 2009-02-19 22:14:19

clodhopper
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Registered: 2008-02-07
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Re: [Solved]Rox filer and UK keyboard.

dunc wrote:

Weird. I have rox-lib installed here:

$ pacman -Qs rox-lib
local/rox-lib 2.0.4-1 (rox-desktop)
    Shared code which can be used by other ROX applications. This is rox-lib2

...and have no keymap trouble.

I thought your problem was odd when I first saw it, but didn't say anything because I didn't really have any answers beyond "works okay here". Still, if uninstalling rox-lib works for you, I suppose... hmm

Weird but that is the way it was.Have had to put 'setxkbmap gb &' into my .xinitrc file to get reliable keyboard mapping and have re-installed rox-lib2.All seems ok now.

Think the problem may have started with 'hwd -xa' which set xorg.conf "XkbdModel" "uk" and uk is unknown to X.
I did'nt notice the error until a few days later by which time i had installed most software (clean install) including rox-lib2.

Best Wishes.Chris.

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#5 2009-02-22 23:50:21

clodhopper
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Registered: 2008-02-07
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Re: [Solved]Rox filer and UK keyboard.

UPDATE; Putting 'setxkbmap gb, qwerty' into .xintrc only went so far,keyboard map was OK but no repeat.Had to follow most of Arch Wiki for evdev,as follows;

Change xorg.conf file at "ServerFlags"
                                       "Option"   "AutoAddDevices" "true" #was "false" original

Copy '/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor' to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/'

Edit 10-keymap.fdi in '/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/' to change us keymap to gb.

Hash out the setxkbmap instruction in .xinitrc.

NOW everything is as it should be.
Best Wishes Chris.

Last edited by clodhopper (2009-02-22 23:52:13)

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