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jpmonette

Member

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 16

Canadian French Keymap

Hey,

I've been looking to set my keyboard in french canadian on my brand-new Archlinux installation with Openbox. In the console, it's working flawlessly.

Here's the content of my /etc/rc.conf:

KEYMAP="cf.map.gz"

The problem come when I try to get the french canadian keyboard layout in Openbox (Xorg).

Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier        "Keyboard0"
    Driver            "kbd"
    Option            "XkbRules"        "xorg"
    Option            "XkbModel        "pc105"
    Option            "XkbLayout"        "ca"
    Option            "XkbVariant"    "fr"
EndSection

I also tried this formulation:

    Option            "XkbLayout"        "ca(fr)"
    Option            "XkbVariant"    ""

Each time, I restart Xorg, but still, when I go in xterm, when I press the key to do é, I still get the / from the english layout...

Any idea?

Thanks a lot! Happy holidays! =P

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Canadian French Keymap

It probably has to do with the new xorg hotplugging.  Unless you disabled it, it will ignore your keyboard settings in xorg.conf.  See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging

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jpmonette

Member

Registered: 2008-12-20

Posts: 16

Re: Canadian French Keymap

Thanks a lot, it's working flawlessly now !