How to set default keyboard layout for X

[PelleB]

How, or rather where do I set the default keyboard layout for X? I chose Swedish latin1 during setup, which it also is for the system, but when X starts it uses US as default. Changing keyboard layout in Xfce is not a problem, but I would like to have Swedish what ever window manager I am in the mood for using.

[thenktor]

Perhaps a bug in keyboardsetup. You can read this: http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... ard+layout
There is also a solution posted in the first posts.

What is the content of /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap?

What do you have in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi in this section:

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      <!-- Edit (as needed) these four lines in the copied fdi file -->
      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string"></merge>

[damNageHack]

You can find a very good documentation for xorg.conf in the archlinux forum.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor ... d_settings

[Akuna]

Question: did you install Salix from SalixLive or from the regular Salix iso ncurse installer? Also, are you using LXDE or XFCE edition?

Tx

[PelleB]

The installation was made from the regular CD, Xfce-edition.

Contents of rc.keymap

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#!/bin/sh
# Load the keyboard map.  More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.
if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then
 /usr/bin/loadkeys -u se-latin1.map
fi

I do not have a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi

There is a xorg.conf-vesa in /etc/X11 but changing it does not change anything. I did that after reading the the thraed about Swiss keyboards.

In the console I have Swedish keyboard, no problem there.

[gapan]

I do not have a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi

Did you install salix in CORE mode?

Anyway, launch the "keyboard" tool from the System menu and select your keymap.

[PelleB]

I installed it in the FULL mode, I have installed it on four different computers, the result is the same. When XFCE starts, it is with US keyboard. The keyboard setup in XFCE calls it "system default". Changing the options with XFCE keyboard setup works, the keyboardswitcher works, but if I start Fluxbox in stead, there is the US layout again.

Switching keyboard layouts in Fluxbox also works, at least to German or Swedish, Polish did not work, but I may have typed something wrong there.

[gapan]

You're mentioning se-latin1 in your rc.keymap, but I believe the right swedish keymap is sv-latin1. Can you try that from the keyboard tool in the System menu?

[PelleB]

You're mentioning se-latin1 in your rc.keymap, but I believe the right swedish keymap is sv-latin1. Can you try that from the keyboard tool in the System menu?

That was the problem. I got the 10-keymap.fdi now too.

But what is se-latin1 then? Which language? And how come, that I had the correct layout in the command line all the time?

[gapan]

But what is se-latin1 then? Which language? And how come, that I had the correct layout in the command line all the time?

To be honest, I'm not sure. It might still be another type of swedish keymap. I can only remember one other swedish user telling me that the correct one is sv-latin1 some time ago.