Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze? - SOLVED
Paul Chany <csanyipal@gmail.com> writes:
> Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 03:47, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:32:17 +0200, Paul Chany wrote:
>>>
>>>> Phil Requirements writes:
>>>
>>>>> Yes, you need to create a simple xorg.conf, because they aren't
>>>>> used by default. I had to create xorg.conf on my system to specify
>>>>> some keyboard options. It works nicely.
>>>>
>>>> For me the command X -configure doesn't works, because the system
>>>> hangs forever.
>
> I was thinking that it take forever but actually it take very long and
> at the and it shut down de PC Box. I get finally a xorg.conf.new file.
>
>>>> What do you command use for xorg.conf to get it? Or, maybe it is
>>>> there another way (udev rules maybe) to setup xkeyboard layouts?
>
> I used 'Xorg -configure :1' command on an xterm when I'm on my running
> XWindow.
>
>>> This is what I am using in Lenny in my "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file (the
>>> file is bigger, this is just the section for setting the
>>> keyboard). It should be still valid:
>>>
>>> ***
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
>>> Driver "kbd"
>>> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
>>> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>>> Option "XkbLayout" "es"
>>> EndSection
>>> ***
>
> Yes, but did you tryed more than one XkbLayout, like eg.: "es,fr"?
> In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf I have now:
> ***
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "hu,hr,cs"
> Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> EndSection
> ***
>
> but it doesn't works. :( On Debian Lenny this setup just works and I can
> there use fookb-wmaker successfully.
>> That doesn't even work anymore, does it? At least for a while when the
>> changeover first happened, I had that stuff in xorg.conf, but it had
>> no effect until I put it in /etc/default/console-setup (later
>> /etc/default/keyboard)
>
> I have now in my /etc/default/keyboard the following:
> ***
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="hu,hr,cs"
> XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
> XKBOPTIONS=""
> ***
>
> and I run 'sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart' and restart the hald but
> fookb-wmaker still doesn't works.
but after I reboot the system it works!
I can now swithc xkeyboard layouts Hungarian, Croatian and Serbian
Cyrillic with fookb-wmaker.
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Paul Chany
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