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Offline bmarkus

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Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« on: January 22, 2013, 04:05:41 AM »
If you want to change keyboard layout for Xorg in piCore, create xorg.conf file in /usr/local/share/X11 (or edit if already exists) and add a section like this:

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Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbLayout" "hu"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

It is setting a Hungarian layout for a pc105 keyboard. Replace it with your own settings and add xorg.conf to backup to make it persistent.

You can put a small config file, for example mykbd.conf with the same content to /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d alternatively.

It is fixing the layout issue, but special keys and key combinations still doesn't work. It is the next step.
« Last Edit: January 22, 2013, 04:54:40 AM by bmarkus »
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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 06:20:39 AM »
Huh, why not the standard /etc/X11 dir?
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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2013, 06:25:47 AM »
Huh, why not the standard /etc/X11 dir?

Is it matter if doesn't worK :)

Just joking. It was picked up by configure as default at compile time. Anyhow, I have to rebuild it soon.
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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2022, 03:37:41 PM »
Hi! I am asking you for help. I have TC 13 with Xorg. I want to set the keyboard to Hungarian. I created the file: xorg.conf as described and added to backup. But it doesn't work, the keyboard stays in English. is it different with tc13?
location:

/usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf

and the content is the same as bmarkus wrote.

Thanks!



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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2022, 09:24:09 PM »
You need to put your config inside the directory /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2022, 01:12:13 AM »
Thank you!
I made and add to backup, but after reboot it is still in english.

is the filename xorg.conf a problem in the xorg.conf.d directory?

kmap is installed and the command was added to bootlocal.sh
loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/hu101.kmap

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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2022, 01:43:09 AM »
I renamed it to 20-keyboard.conf but nothings happens  :-\

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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2022, 05:54:35 AM »
Hi Laskody
The  loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/hu101.kmap   command belongs in bootsync.sh, not bootlocal.sh.

On the subject of kmaps:
kmaps only affects the console and Xvesa, not Xorg.

I renamed it to 20-keyboard.conf but nothings happens  :-\
What does this command return:
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grep "\.conf" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2022, 12:53:04 PM »
Using system config directory: "usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2022, 02:35:08 AM »
When I run the command in the terminal:
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setxkbmap -layout "hu"

Switches the language to Hungarian and its works.

how could i automate it at boot?

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Re: Setting keyboard layout for Xorg
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2022, 02:46:41 AM »
Solved! I renamed the file:
00-keyboard.conf in the xorg.conf.d directory and editet as:

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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "hu"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbVariant" ",dvorak"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:win_space_toggle"
EndSection