Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts
On 2016-06-10, Levi S. Darrell <levidarrell@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
See the relevant Debian doumentation[1], in the particular the section
"How does it propagate to X?".
1: https://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/configure-input.html
--
Liam
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