Changing the keymap

Per M. · 11-01-2005, 04:51 AM

Hello.

I have just installed Elive to hard drive, but how do I change the keyboard map from us to dk? When I type the special characters, others show up. I have tried changing /etc/X11/XF86Config as root, but it doesnt help when Im the normal user. What should I do?

- Per

otoomet · 11-01-2005, 09:44 AM

'setxkbmap dk' or whatever keyboard layout you want. There also graphical applets for gnome and kde.

Note you have to have permissions to open the display (it only matters if you have su'ed to a different user).

In XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) you should have something like

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "Keyboard"
    Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
    Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "dk"
EndSection

It should give everyone dk-keyboard after you restart X (e.g. reboot).

Hope it helps,
Ott

Per M. · 11-01-2005, 10:54 AM

Thanks, that really helped! I just typed "setxkbmap dk" and it worked!