Bug#617580: console-setup: Poor documentation for configuring the keyboard
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:15:50PM +0100, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>
> I've just upgraded to Squeeze, trying to find a way to bring back my
> old heavily customized X11 keymap. I think I can state my problem in
> the cleanest way by describing how I did my search:
>
> [...]
Thank you for the valuable information. The omissions in the
documentation are not always obvious to the maintainers.
> - Then I easily find /etc/default/keyboard, containing the new config.
> Trying to learn about this file is difficult though -- hard to tell
> which package it belongs to.
Isn't this explained in the comments of this file? The following is the
contents of this file on my system:
# Check /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/README.Debian for
# documentation on what to do after having modified this file.
# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,bg"
XKBVARIANT=",phonetic"
XKBOPTIONS="grp:toggle,grp_led:scroll"
# If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
# specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible
# before /usr is mounted.
# KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz
Anton Zinoviev
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