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Santorres

05-16-2004 11:26 PM

Changing my keyboard layout (language) globally by command (shell)

:Pengy:

Sorry for the subject.. i did not know how to name it...

I`d like to know how to configure my keyboard layout by command.. Meant when working under KDE is already done, but inmediately i used any other window manager or just do not use X (GUI) my keyboard layout change... Can anyone explain where to change it globally ?

Thanks for your help....

:newbie:

Muzzy

05-17-2004 02:04 PM

To change it for all X Windows, in my case to danish:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Keyboard1"

    Driver      "Keyboard"

    Option "XkbLayout"  "dk"

    Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

    ....

EndSection

and for the console you need this in your startup scripts:

Code:

loadkeys dk

Depening on your distro, there maybe a smarter way of doing this, but loadkeys should work too.

I notice you are using knoppix too: for that you should press F2 at boot up the type:

Code:

knoppix lang=dk

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