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viking60

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From: Valhalla

Registered: 2010-08-02

Posts: 95

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[SOLVED]Cannot get my local Keyboard back

I did a fresh install in VB to test the new install regime and the systemd way. That worked and I had no problem in loading my local keyboard with

loadkeys no latin1

/during install.

I tried to set up the stuff in the "systemd way" and installed Gnome. It all went well and looks good. But somewhere in the process the norwegian keyboard was gone. From the Gnome systemsettings it indikates my keyboard even with the corect grapichal map.
I tried to delete the en-US alternative but that did not help.
The gnome terminal lets me do a

sudo loadkeys no-latin1

without protesting, but the keyboard is still en/US

If I go to TTY1 i can do a loadkeys no-latin1 and it works perfectly fine.

So I am probably missing something obvious here.

the output of locale is:

[thomas@nyarch ~]$ locale
LANG=nb_NO.utf8
LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_TIME="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_PAPER="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_NAME="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.utf8"
LC_ALL=

My /etc/vconsole.conf:

KEYMAP=no-latin1
FONT=lat1-16
FONT_MAP= 

Locale.gen is uncomented in the right places. and updated with locale-gen

My locale.conf:

[viking@nyarch ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8

Please point me in the right direction...

Last edited by viking60 (2012-07-31 14:46:34)

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Malb

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Registered: 2012-07-31

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]Cannot get my local Keyboard back

What does "Terminal" -> "Set Character Encoding" in the menubar say? It should be set to UTF-8, but on my system it had suddenly changed after a recent update.

viking60

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From: Valhalla

Registered: 2010-08-02

Posts: 95

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Re: [SOLVED]Cannot get my local Keyboard back

It says UTF8 so it is not there either.
Edit:
Found it! It was my good ol' friend X that had some fun with me again:

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

I had to set my (only) language as an option; which does not seem very logic:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "XkbLayout" "no" <--------
EndSection

Last edited by viking60 (2012-07-31 14:54:19)

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