Fluxbox Keyboard Question

[Beillzibub]

Hey Peeps,

Does anyone know how to set a keyboard to english uk within Fluxbox?
I've been looking for hours now and can't work it out at all! Getting a bit fed up of losing the hash and the tilde symbols!!!

Any help appreciated.

[Beillzibub]

ehem,

As with my last two time wasting questions, I've solved this myself.....
For anyone who's interested, I used a terminal as root and input the following command;

setxkbmap -layout 'gb,us' -model pc105



Hope this helps anyone else in my predicament. (",)


# EDIT: Actually, this command doesn't need to be executed in root. You can do it with any login...
-Incidentally, if anyone else IS having this issue, I also found that my keyboard was reverting back to US keyboard standard on reboot. To combat this, I placed the command in my "~/.fluxbox/startup" file where you can place any programs that you want to load when fluxbox boots i.e: conky etc...

[tcrroadie]

For a more perminent fix, you should be able to set your keyboard layout by editing the "InputDevice" section defining your keyboard in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. As an example on my Ubuntu laptop, the section defining my keyboard in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file looks like this.

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection


Just change the line

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 Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"

to

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 Option          "XkbLayout"     "gb,us"

At least I think that is the correct code for Great Britain.

[stubbsjuk]

Hi,

I was having the same problem - English/British keyboard and changed the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
to
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us"
I rebooted and now, non of my alpha keys work only the top numeric keys.

Obviously now I can't log in using the graphical screen.

I used viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3097&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=boot+recovery
to get into Kboot. But I can't find the file I need to change.

I hope you can help.

Best wishes.


James