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BTW, is there a method for installing MLED without a working internet connection, i.e. offline? I consider migrating a laptop that has a peculiar BCM wireless device needing the STA driver to work properly, but this driver can be pulled from the microlinux repo during or after the installation process. Seems like a catch 22 in this situation... Apart from plugging-in the cable or somehow modifying the installation USB-stick by including all the needed MLED packages and tagfiles, I can't imagine doing the install over WiFi. Or can I?
Here's a link to where you can download the file and then install the package after installing. You might have to blacklist the b43 & ssb modules in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.
A very interesting project.
The link to ChangeLogs is
up, however I am seeing 404 for
first two links in the original post.
Yes, I'm sorry for the inconvenience. There's has been a detailed discussion since the initial post (see another thread), and since I'm not in the position of maintaining three different desktop environments, I've decided to concentrate on Xfce.
As I find the xfce4-xkb-plugin somewhat lacking in flexibility, I tried to configure the keyboard as recommended, but it seems that the X server does not honor the custom settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf: the options are simply ignored and do not work as expected. Could this be possible?
Here is what I have in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf:
I'm using the xfce4-xkb-plugin to switch between the german and the swiss german layout. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf I only define one main layout, used from the GDM login screen:
kikinovak's solution is probably better, and I don't know how XFCE handles this, but in my .xinitrc I have this to switch between de and us (I use kdm and load .xinitrc via .xsession):
Then I can switch via MOD1+Shift. (And it also makes Caps lock a ctrl key, and makes my Compose key a ... well, compose key [I use a Sun Type 7 keyboard which has a compose key instead of a right ctrl].)
kikinovak's solution is probably better, and I don't know how XFCE handles this, but in my .xinitrc I have this to switch between de and us (I use kdm and load .xinitrc via .xsession):
Then I can switch via MOD1+Shift. (And it also makes Caps lock a ctrl key, and makes my Compose key a ... well, compose key [I use a Sun Type 7 keyboard which has a compose key instead of a right ctrl].)
I've been using this method under CentOS for a few years. GNOME's infamous keyboard switcher has always been broken, with bug reports ignored by the developers (since a "normal" user doesn't switch keyboard layouts, silly me), so I had to use this feature of X.org to be able to do it.
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Once you've started Xfce, open the Control Panel > Keyboard > Layouts. Use this to add a secondary keyboard layout.
Finally, add the xfce4-xkb-plugin to the panel, and you will be able to switch between keyboard layouts. This all works very well here.
I prefer not using the xkb-plugin because it doesn't support all the options I need... Anyway, the config I provided above works as expected under vanilla Slack, so I wonder if something happened while adding the "MLED-layer" on top of it.
kikinovak's solution is probably better, and I don't know how XFCE handles this, but in my .xinitrc I have this to switch between de and us (I use kdm and load .xinitrc via .xsession):
Then I can switch via MOD1+Shift. (And it also makes Caps lock a ctrl key, and makes my Compose key a ... well, compose key [I use a Sun Type 7 keyboard which has a compose key instead of a right ctrl].)
That would be a solution, given that the "classic" one does not work now. But I do not know how to set this up in a .xinitrc via .xsessionn as you suggested, so could you provide step-by-step instructions?
The main reason I'd like to avoid using the xfce4-xkb-plugin is that it doesn't seem to support the options "grp_led:", "ctrl:" and (AFAIK) "lv3:".
For the record, I tried to place the (full) setxkbmap command in both ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession, but to no avail -- the settings are not applied upon reboot & login... Am I doing something wrong?
The Installation Guide says that "Some packages like the Open Office language packs, ... are not automatically installed by the installation script ...", but I found that these are in fact installed.
I have also found that "MuPDF Firefox plugin doesn't work" is valid for MLED 14.1 as well, so it should be added to "BUGS & KNOWN ISSUES".
That's curious. So far I've made a few dozen installs of MLED 14.1, and the MuPDF plugin works well. Click on a PDF file on a site, and Firefox displays it with the plugin. You might want to check your file associations.
Strange indeed - I noticed that PDF files open with FF's built-in viewer, and there is no mention of MuPDF in about:plugin for two freshly installed MLED 14.1 (32-bit) boxes either: http://i.imgur.com/6tWY8IH.png ...
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