Hello everybody!
I have fitted Bodhi Linux 5.0.0 Legacy on my tiny ASUS Eee PC 900; In the past I had a good work using a previous edition (I don't remenber its N°).
After each start, I have to use "system settings" to choose "keyboard map" + "french". And some pads don't work as expected.
I guess I should put down some new values in a file (something like /etc/default/keyboard ?)to set "pc80" in place of "pc105", and "fr" in place of "us".
Who knows how to amend this?
Friendly, Didier.

Open a terminal and give the command locale. The reply should include something starting with LANGUAGE=fr and not LANGUAGE=en
If that's the problem, you need to set the locale with update-locale. First make sure that you have a French locale available and the correct name with

Hello David, thank you for your reply.
I have typed the command "locale", please see here the result:
er@EeePC-900:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
didier@EeePC-900:~$

I have typed "local -a grep fr"; The result is as follows:
ier@EeePC-900:~$ locale -a grep fr
C
C.UTF-8
en_AG
en_AG.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IL
en_IL.utf8
en_IN
en_IN.utf8
en_NG
en_NG.utf8
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZM
en_ZM.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
fr_CH.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX
didier@EeePC-900:~$

In the last lines returned I can see "fr_FR.utf8".

But I am not able to find a file called "FR_FR.utf8"in order to check if it seems to be a correct file to call.

Is it a file name, or not? Is it a value in an other map? If so, in which one?
Friendly, Didier

the command should be but the problem is clear: you do not have french locale installed & activated.
this is a fairly easy thing to set up, i'm sure you could even find instructions in french.
search for ubuntu solutions.

fix that first.

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Yes, fr_FR.utf8 is the thing you need for an AZERTY keyboard. Find out how to alter things with
The problem is that something is trying to be helpful and changing your French keyboard to a US one because you have a US set up! The other US things could be changed, although they are normally ignored by software settings. So
NUMERIC will use "." for a decimal point unless otherwise set
MONETARY will use "$" for the default currency
PAPER will default to US paper instead of A4
MEASUREMENT will default ti inches insetad of millimeters

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Hello

thank you David and ondoho for your help, I know now what to do

I shall close this thread soon now

Regards Didier

Hello,

in order to close properly this post, I put down the solution I find:

Help (in french) was found in here:
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/tutoriel/c...rer_le_clavier

I had to ype this command line:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Than follow the instructions (in english).

And to use the new configuration, boot again the PC.

Great thanks to the people involved in the Linux organisations.

Didier

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you are now one of them!