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how to change keymap ?

how to change keymap ?
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Hello,

When I use Xwindow then Linux use the English/American
keymap. My question is how to switch to French keyboard map
in linux (command line and XWindow) ?

thanks
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INTMAIL

In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, change the

Code:

Option "XkbLayout" "us"

line to

Code:

Option "XkbLayout" "be"

HTH
Flupke

Is there a way to change the keymap from the command line w/o having to edit any particular file?

I think the pkgtool command has an option to change the keymap.

In the console:

To change the keymap used in Slackware console, the init scripts look for a file called "/etc/rc.d/rc.keymap". The file should have contents like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Load the keyboard map.  More maps are in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps.

if [ -x /usr/bin/loadkeys ]; then

  /usr/bin/loadkeys fr.map

fi

This file should also be executable:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap

Instead of "fr.map" you could also try "fr-latin1.map". More keymap files are in directory /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty .

In X:

KDE and Gnome will let you select a keyboard layout. KDE in Control Panel, and Gnome there's surely something similar (I don't run KDE or Gnome at the moment). If you use another desktop environment, the easiest way is still, to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... or re-run "xorgconfig" to generate a new xorg.conf and this time select a french keyboard layout.

Eric