who can help me

[Darrin]

Hi !
I found two things who annoyed me. Fortunately I found a way to kinda resolve them:
- I cannot figure how to zap xorg (i.e. ctrl+alt+backspace to relaunch X). There is no more any xorg.conf so I cannot figure how to do. I tried adding option "dontzap" "false" in xorg.conf but it didn't work. I found while searching on Internet that a new combination keys has been set : alt+print_screen+k and it works
- I'm french and use a french keyboard. But the "fr" layout only provide a poor keyboard map. The "oss" variant is much better (I don't know what it isn't the default). This could be change in XFCE after login, but I prefer my system to directly use the correct mapping/layout. Especially because I don't want to do the manipulation on every account. Since xorg.conf is not used anymore for keybaord layout, HAL is in charge of it.
To modify it, edit "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi" and change the line about xkb.layout and xkb.variant to this :
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<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fr</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">oss</merge>

Restart hal and restart X (in fact gdm):
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service restart hald
service restart gdm

And you're done.

Could a application (ncurses or X or both) could be set to modify these settings ? Could be better at installation process also

[Akuna]

You mean something like keyboardsetup/gtkkeyboardsetup?

[mimosa]

I'm not sure it'll help, but for reference, here is another rather messy approach to a somewhat similar problem:

http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... ard#p12645

There is a way to do this properly from the System menu, but my understanding is that some less common layouts are not incuded. It's possible the devs would add them if requested.

The thread is in French, but for anyone else reading, the key parts should be fairly clear I hope.

[gapan]

The oss variant is used when you run keyboardsetup/gtkkeyboardsetup and you choose the fr or fr-latin9 layouts.