Cannot add Keyboard layouts with Slack 12 rc1

stelmed · 07-01-2007, 05:06 PM

Hello everybody,

I have successfully updated my system to 12 rc1. The only problem I 've come through is that I cannot add any keyboard layout from the KDE Control Center. The available layouts list seems to be empty.
Any ideas?

randomsel · 07-01-2007, 06:24 PM

Didn't know about kde keyboard layouts, I add keyboard layouts into my xorg.conf with xorgsetup...

Zmyrgel · 07-01-2007, 08:33 PM

Have you installed the kde-i18n language packages?

Ilgar · 07-01-2007, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zmyrgel

Have you installed the kde-i18n language packages?

Keyboard layouts should work without any i18n packages (it's an X11 feature, after all).

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-01-2007, 09:19 PM

For changing your keyboard layout inside xserver, I would use 'xorgsetup'. If you don't want to, just take a look inside '/etc/X11/xorg.conf', and look for a section like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option       "XkbModel"  "pc101"
	Option       "XkbLayout"  "us(dvorak)"
EndSection

Notice the "XkbLayout" and after that "us(dvorak)", that's just my keyboard layout, replace it with yours.

Zmyrgel · 07-02-2007, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ilgar

Keyboard layouts should work without any i18n packages (it's an X11 feature, after all).

Ah, my mistake, I forgot the i18n packages only offer translations for KDE, not the layouts. I stand corrected.

stelmed · 07-03-2007, 03:23 PM

I finally managed to solve it by installing everything from the /x folder. I will now try to figure out which packages are necessary by uninstalling one package at a time.
Thanx for the help