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civ247

Member

Registered: 2005-08-05

Posts: 53

X keyboard layout

I just upgaded to the new Xorg. I made a new a new xorg.conf using Xorg -configure but this does not work, it just stops on a black screen.

I dont really care too much because everything works except for the scrollwheel.

The problem is that the eyboard layout is set to US(i think) & i have a uk keyboard.

It is set to uk in rc.conf but if i remember correctly there is a xkeyboard setting as well which i think is related to the xorg.conf.

Anyway, how can i fix/set this?

Thanks,

Civ

Aer

Member

From: Paris

Registered: 2005-12-03

Posts: 45

Re: X keyboard layout

edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (with vim or nano for example)

for the keyboard :
change

     Option "XkbLayout"  "us" 

into

     Option "XkbLayout"  "uk" 

for the mouse :
add

   Option "ZaxisMapping" "4 5" 

after something like :

Section "InputDevice"

   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver     "mouse"
   Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"

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The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.

civ247

Member

Registered: 2005-08-05

Posts: 53

Re: X keyboard layout

Thanks,

Untill i get xorg.conf working i can use  setxkbmap to set it.

I might just start stripping bits form xorg.conf untill i get rid of whatever isnt working. I just dont have much time at the moment to figure out everything that isnt working.

Thanks agin!