[SOLVED] dual keyboard input (2 language) in X (xorg.conf)

slackman77 · 09-30-2010, 05:13 AM

Super!! Thanks Bathory.
Now it works in Root as well.

Thanks for the help everyone!

slackman77 · 09-30-2010, 05:22 AM

Quote:

setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,rs,si

Yes, it seems getting rid of the extra mapping options helped a lot, when using the setxkbmap command. Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by diwljina

Well, I guess that your way is just as good as any other. There's more than one way to skin a cat in linux.

Yes, there is, seems some folks say that one is more correct than the other, I just do things the way I remember (which is not very well sometimes, LOL)

slackman77 · 09-30-2010, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

@OP
X use hal in Slackware, so you have to use /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi for the keyboard configuration. If you don't have that file, copy it from /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi and edit the varous <merge key=...> tags, to look like:

Code:

      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us,th</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</mer$
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />

Of course you need to exit X and restart hald

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.hald restart

If you want to go with the traditional xorg.conf options, you need to add in xorg.conf

Code:

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option "AutoAddDevices" "0"
     Option "AllowEmptyInput" "0"
     Option "AutoEnableDevices" "0"
EndSection

Regards

Worked Like a charm!