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Vincent91

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Registered: 2009-03-25

Posts: 10

X apparently not using xorg.conf's keyboard settings

Hello everyone,

I have recently installed Archlinux on my Dell XPS laptop which previously ran only Ubuntu. I want to keep it all lightweight and so I have not installed any heavy desktop environment, I use Slim for login and Fluxbox as my window manager.

When installing Arch, I was annoyed that my preferred keyboard layout, Canada Multilingual second part, was not available. I used the Canadian French layout temporarily. Atfer Xorg was installed, I quickly checked /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst for ca multi-2gr and found it, so I set my xorg.conf to look like this:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "ca"
    Option "XkbVariant" "multi-2gr"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:lwin"
EndSection

However, when Xorg is running, my keyboard always takes the default US keyboard layout and I can't seem to change it. It is just as if X did not read xorg.conf at all. Any clue as to what may be causing this?

Thanks in advance for your help

thunderogg

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From: Rio de Janeiro

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 172

Re: X apparently not using xorg.conf's keyboard settings

Have you checked out the wiki, specially this part? : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … server_1.5

Vincent91

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Registered: 2009-03-25

Posts: 10

Re: X apparently not using xorg.conf's keyboard settings

Well now I do look stupid. I had read that wiki page more than once and reread the Keyboard part more than once, but everytime I looked at that title about hotplugging and thought "Meh, that doesn't concern me".

Thanks a lot

Edit: I'll just have to play around with it a little now, the keyboard doesn't work at all now >.>

Last edited by Vincent91 (2009-03-28 22:28:20)

thunderogg

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From: Rio de Janeiro

Registered: 2008-07-13

Posts: 172

Re: X apparently not using xorg.conf's keyboard settings

That happens.

frp

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Registered: 2009-03-13

Posts: 19

Re: X apparently not using xorg.conf's keyboard settings

If it's still not working, you might wanna give a look here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68611

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