On 07/17/2010 06:18 PM, Samuel Penn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've decided to have a play with Xfce (4.6.1, on Gentoo) but I'm having
> some keyboard issues. I can't see to get a UK layout on my keyboard. It
> works fine in KDE.
>
> I've tried the Keyboard Layouts plugin, and I've also added options
> into xorg.conf[1] as suggested by some Googling, but I haven't been
> able to get a UK keyboard map. Can anyone provide any suggestions?
>
>
> [1] I added this to xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard1"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection
>
>
I had this problem after installing Slackware 13.1 and XFCE 4.6.1
I don't remember having it with previous versions.
Slackware still uses hal, which I understand is on its way out. If
your system doesn't use hal, this may not help.
I had to copy the file
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi
to
/etc/hal/fdi/policy
and edit it. The line
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
needs to be changed so that "us" becomes "gb"
I don't know why this is necessary, or what XFCE does if the
system isn't running hal.
MikeD
