prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Sun Dec 2 22:22:34 UTC 2012


On Dom, 2012-12-02 at 19:33 +0200, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2012 23:38:49 Sérgio Basto wrote:
> 
> > system-config-keyboard should do this:
> 
> > 
> 
> > 1. Get the old settings: cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
> 
> > 2. Set the new settings: su -c 'localectl set-x11-keymap <layout>
> 
> > [<model>] [<variant>] [<options>]'
> 
> > 3. Remove the old configuration file: su -c
> 
> > 'rm /etc/sysconfig/keyboard'
> 
>  
> 
> Replace item 3. with an even better one:
> 
> 3. Overwrite /etc/sysconfig/keyboard with following content:
> 
> # This file is obsolete and may be removed, its settings
> 
> # were migrated on <date> by running:
> 
> # localectl set-x11-keymap....
> 
>  
> 
> Thus, making people understand what happened to their old file.
> 
I agree .

Thanks, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.



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