Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts

["Levi S. Darrell" <levidarrell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:31:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> 
> I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam"
> in your /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default.
> That's for X itself (I know nothing about LXDE) but also the VCs.
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
> will update the VC keyboards. I always run
> dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
> at the same time because I sometimes forget which configures what.
> 
> HOWEVER, only run those two commands when X isn't running.
> At all. Not in a VC that you reached with Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6].
> If X is running, all sorts of weirdnesses result.
> This might be the answer to your other posting.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 

Thank you very much for this suggestion. They keyboard layouts are now working swimmingly from the bash shell. Now the problem is getting them to work in LXDE when I start X Server. I will consult LXDE's documentation.

Regards,

Levi