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PauGNU

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2009-06-27

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Keyboard always back to US layout

Hi,

I've just installed Arch on my laptop and I'm having this problem with the keyboard layout. On /etc/rc.conf the layout set is «es».

This is the problem: each time I enter into my session on GNOME the keyboard layout is US, even if I change it on the keyboard dialog and delete the US one. I've looking on these forums and there was something related to hal (but hal is not on my modules list, and this is correct, I think). It seems like if GNOME is not saving my preferences in this case.

What can I do?

Thanks!

Pau

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

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Re: Keyboard always back to US layout

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PauGNU

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2009-06-27

Posts: 12

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Re: Keyboard always back to US layout

Thanks, Gusar. It worked!

I just had to add this to my xorg.conf file («es» is the keyboard layout I needed):

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier             "Keyboard Defaults"
    MatchIsKeyboard       "yes"
    Option               "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

Last edited by PauGNU (2010-12-26 22:10:33)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,286

Re: Keyboard always back to US layout

Don't change it on the keyboard dialog, change it in GDM. Uhm, well... or in Xorg.