changing keyboard layout on shell

ShadowLaw · 03-13-2009, 11:00 AM

hi all,

i've installed fedora10 on my virtual machine under a OpenSuse10.3. When installing i ve chosen English language and french layout for keyboard. But any time i run fedora my kb is english and i cannot find how to change it
How can i do it using shell?

Dankles · 03-13-2009, 02:13 PM

Code:

nano -w /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

then change
KEYTABLE="??"
to
KEYTABLE="(the french abbreviation)" FR???
For the GUI:

Code:

nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

change
-----
Option "XkbLayout" "??"
-----
then if your in the GUI
run
# init 3
then
# init 5