Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kdm keymap
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:08:41
Message-Id: 4d19fd1a.db97cc0a.6224.ffffaf77@mx.google.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kdm keymap by alain.didierjean@free.fr
1 On Friday 24 December 2010 15:12:17 alain.didierjean@××××.fr wrote:
2 > I use hal. No more xorg.conf.
3 > Since I updated kdm to v.4.4.5 it use a QWERTY keymap, when it worked OK in
4 > previous 4.4.* version after modifying /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi.
5 > I try adding the following 2 lines also in
6 > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi, just in case :
7 > <merge
8 > key="input.xkb.options"type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge> <merge
9 > key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">fr</merge>
10 >
11 > Of course I also checked french as language in the kdl config panel.
12 > Obviously, entering a password using an AZERTY keyboard & a QWERTY keymap is
13 > not that easy.
14 > What can I do ? Couldn't find anything in the doc.
15 > And a happy Xmas to you all.
16
17 had a similar problem, finally I did something stupid to solve it:
18 I put setxkbmap de & into /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup