How can i change the Keyboard-Konfiguration from us to de_DE.UTF8

hartmut24 · 09-15-2015, 11:56 AM

Hi,

it is possible to change the keyboard-layout for root direct after login and before startx?
I need everywhere a qwerty-keyboard for root.

Thanks!
hartmut24

smallpond · 09-15-2015, 12:58 PM

Look in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst for the choices for keyboard model and layout. To set it the way you want use setxkbmap. You can put the command in your .xinitrc file.

zk1234 · 09-15-2015, 01:35 PM

Bad news for beginners:
4MLinux offers custom keyboard layout in X only.

Good news for advanced users:
4MLinux can make use of Debian, Fedora, and Slackware packages. The following should work:

Code:

dpkg -i package.deb
rpm -i package.rpm
installpkg package.txz

Let's ask Slackware for help :-)
1) Download kbd-1.15.3-i486-2.txz here:
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwa...1/slackware/a/
2) Install it:

Code:

installpkg kbd-1.15.3-i486-2.txz

3) Edit /etc/init.d/autostart.sh by adding the following line:

Code:

loadkeys de

Done!
Now the "de" layout will be loaded during the boot time.

hartmut24 · 09-15-2015, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zk1234

Bad news for beginners:
4MLinux offers custom keyboard layout in X only.

Good news for advanced users:
4MLinux can make use of Debian, Fedora, and Slackware packages. The following should work:

Code:

dpkg -i package.deb
rpm -i package.rpm
installpkg package.txz

Let's ask Slackware for help :-)
1) Download kbd-1.15.3-i486-2.txz here:
http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwa...1/slackware/a/
2) Install it:

Code:

installpkg kbd-1.15.3-i486-2.txz

3) Edit /etc/init.d/autostart.sh by adding the following line:

Code:

loadkeys de

Done!
Now the "de" layout will be loaded during the boot time.

Hi,
thanks for the bad news and the good news.
I try it out!

Now it is good to know, that all my try and error in the to last days could not work because 4MLinux offers custom keyboard layout in X only.

thanks
hartmut24

zk1234 · 09-16-2015, 05:24 PM

@hartmut24 I've made a decision to include the loadkeys utility (with a simple configuration file /etc/kbd.conf) in 4MLinux 14.0 BETA, which will be released in a few days.

Thanks for helping me to improve my distro !

hartmut24 · 09-17-2015, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zk1234

@hartmut24 I've made a decision to include the loadkeys utility (with a simple configuration file /etc/kbd.conf) in 4MLinux 14.0 BETA, which will be released in a few days.

Thanks for helping me to improve my distro !

Dear zk1234 ...;
I think, this is a good decision.
I'm happy!

thanks
hartmut24

PS.: 24-Sept-2015: in 4MLINUX-14.0 it works!