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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

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keyboard and time

After reinstalling Arch, with Xorg7, etc, I can't change the keyboard layout and the time... (I'm using Xfce4)

these are the steps I've tried...

- pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard
- nano /root/xorg.conf.new    ...   adding-  Option   "XkbLayout"  "uk"
- nano /etc/rc.conf   ...   adding- KEYMAP="uk"

- and to change the timezone i went   ...   nano /etc/rc.conf   ... adding- TIMEZONE="Afirica/Lagos"

but nothing has changed... any ideas?

thanks!

teto

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Registered: 2006-03-10

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Re: keyboard and time

TIMEZONE="Africa/Lagos"
not
TIMEZONE="Afirica/Lagos"  ??

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

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Re: keyboard and time

apologies- spelling mistake on forum- not on my laptop

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: keyboard and time

For layout,
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
should give you the uk keymap in xorg.

For timezone (and keymaps), try without the quotes. For example, I have:
TIMEZONE=America/Montreal
KEYMAP=us

christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

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Re: keyboard and time

I'm afraid neither of those has worked...

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

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Re: keyboard and time

Did you make the changes in the xorg.conf file also, not just in xorg.conf.new?

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christianpurefoy

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Re: keyboard and time

there's no such file - when i reinstalled arch, i just downloaded Xorg, then ran 'Xorg -configure' ...

Sigi

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Re: keyboard and time

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new /etc/x11/xorg.conf

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christianpurefoy

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Re: keyboard and time

did you mean...?

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /root/xorg.conf

thanks for all help!

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

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Re: keyboard and time

I've got mine still in the /etc-dir, I don't know if this will still be supported as Xorg developement continues..

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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

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Re: keyboard and time

rgds the keyboard- maybe it's recognising it fine, but just isn't the right keyboard still... basically i need your standard keyboard- but one that has the '@" sign on the bottom right-hand next to the shift key... and get the ' " ' by pressing shift+2.

any ideas? thanks!

teto

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Registered: 2006-03-10

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Re: keyboard and time

"us" layout?

Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

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Re: keyboard and time

did you mean...?

cp /root/xorg.conf.new /root/xorg.conf

thanks for all help!

No he didn't, your xorg.conf should be in /etc/X11.

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christianpurefoy

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Re: keyboard and time

hmmm- well when I put in cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new /etc/x11/xorg.conf, it comes up with :

cp: cannot stat ' /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new': no such file or directory

should i mkdir a new directory?

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

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Re: keyboard and time

hmmm- well when I put in cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new /etc/x11/xorg.conf, it comes up with :

cp: cannot stat ' /etc/X11/xorg.conf.new': no such file or directory

should i mkdir a new directory?

No. Do:
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

christianpurefoy

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Re: keyboard and time

okay that seems to have done it.

so to solve it, I changed:

- cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- nano /etc/rc.conf ... keyboard layout=uk

thanks!

anyone have an idea on changing the time?