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Re: X11 Keyboard mapping with hal: How?



On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 03:01 +0100, Adrian Zaugg wrote: 
> 
> If I wtach the Xorg.0.log I see with hal working it choses a keyboard 
> layout "sg" (instead of "ch" Variant "de_mac") and I remember vaguely 
> typing this once in a Debian dialog when installing. The layout "sg" 
> doesn't exist, that's why I'm quite sure, I did this type. But I can't 
> find the package to dpkg-reconfigure -plow to stumble upon this question 
> again. Any hint?

console-setup maybe?


> I think I found the solution to teach hal the right layout here:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_Input_Hotplugging#Modifying_hal_configuration

Note that as of xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.2-1 (in current sid) it no
longer uses hal but udev directly for input hotplugging.

>From /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz:

        The default keyboard layout is shared with the console and is
        configured in /etc/default/keyboard.


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