FC2 and keyboard layouts
Kevin Coffin
kevin at finway.co.uk
Tue May 25 19:49:16 UTC 2004
On Tue, 25 May 2004 07:19:51 -0400, Neal Becker
<ndbecker2 at verizon.net> wrote...
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>On Monday 24 May 2004 1:30 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:14:11PM +0300, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
>> > Any one noticed that you can't change the keyboard layout ??
>> > It is not only me, but other friends has suffered the same too.
>> > I am using KDE.
>>
>> system-config-keyboard edits the wrong file it seems. Move the changes
>> it makes into /etc/X11/Xorg.conf (or whatever the Xorg file is called) and
>> see if that helps
>>
>> Seems to be a XFree->Xorg change that got missed and needs an errata
>
>Ahh, I see there are 2 different problems we are talking about. I'm talking
>about the fact that on KDE control-center/regional &
>accessability/keyboard-layout, the "switching options" and "Xkb options" are
>blank. This was not true with any kde I've used before, or any I built
>myself.
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There appears to be something missed in KDE during the change from
XFree to Xorg. My work around is as root cd to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
and
ln -s xorg.lst xfree86.lst
ln -s xorg.xml xfree86.xml
The keyboard layout options should reappear in the control panel.
Kevin
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