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Offline Triophile

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Can't get UK keymap to load
« on: November 29, 2011, 06:37:16 PM »
Hi, guys.

I've had a look at a couple of previous posts and added the following line to /opt/bootlocal.sh

loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/qwerty/uk

This, however, doesn't seem to load the British keymap. I'm not new to Linux, but I am inexperienced with the command line and stuff like this. Does the line I've added need to be preceeded by a # or anything?

Another quick question: when do I have to press F2 at the startup of a persistent installation of TC to enter a boot code? Is F2 even the right key? Tried it a couple of times and getting some square brackets and the letter B from what I remember...

Otherwise, I absolutely love TC. I've tried a number of other Linux installs (Zorin, CrashBang, Puppy, etc), and want something similar to the DSL a friend helped to install on an old laptop five or six years ago. TC really is a great way for me to learn more about the nuts and bolts of Linux, while having the ease of a GUI, the simplicity of a package manager, and the joy of blazing speed.

Cheers, Jon.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 07:33:39 PM »
Sorry, should have added I've already installed kmaps.tcz

Thought my search terms were OK, but just saw post a few down from mine re Finnish keymap. I'll try the action specified in the relevant link.

Basic Linux, still tricky for me :-)
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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 08:22:14 PM »
Sigh, rapidly losing the will to live...

Followed the link re creating a xorg conf file to set up the keyboard layout - it talks about creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I can't use EmelFM2 to create the new directory X11 in /etc/: permission is denied. Presumably I have to create the file as root, but I see no option to run EmelFM2 as root. If I click the icon in EmelFM2 'Run command as root', it just appears to take me to a command-line pop-up. Given the fact that I'm using EmelFM2 in order to avoid doing such things with the command line, with which I'm currently very inexperienced, this is more than a little frustrating!

Any help much appreciated, Jon.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2011, 09:21:36 PM »
Hi Triophile
Open a terminal and enter
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sudo emelfm2Your file manager is now running as root.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 04:04:11 AM »
Thanks Rich. I'll do that.

I can see the time really has come for me to invest in a book on CLI. Any recommendations?

Cheers, Jon.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 08:37:18 AM »
Just a couple of days ago, I started emelfm2 from the desktop menu instead of from its icon (I just about -never- use the menu) and noticed that there is a a menu item to run emelfm2 as root.

So many times I've opened a terminal window just so I could type "sudo emelfm2 &" and I didn't need to.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2011, 09:01:21 AM »
Hi Triophile
Sorry, I don't know which books do a good job on the subject. Maybe someone else has an idea.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2011, 09:06:56 AM »
Sorry, should have added I've already installed kmaps.tcz

Thought my search terms were OK, but just saw post a few down from mine re Finnish keymap. I'll try the action specified in the relevant link.

Basic Linux, still tricky for me :-)

Checked isount site, there is a large collection of books to download on subject.
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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2011, 10:25:38 AM »
Your command was not complete, the path is to uk.kmap not to a file called uk. Still, it would be easier to use the kmap bootcode (kmap=qwerty/uk).
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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2011, 06:35:40 PM »
Thanks for the feedback guys.

Rich, I tried 'sudo emelfm2' and hit return, but got an endlessly repeated line, 'Don't run this as root' in the terminal. When I closed the terminal and started emelfm2 from the left-click menu (not icon), still no joy.

Lee: doesn't work for me, unfortunately.

BMarkus: did you mean 'isoHunt'? Tried there, looks promising, be downloading soon.

Curaga: thanks, that got it sorted! I'm going to have to pay rather more attention to what I'm doing (and try not to do it in the middle of the night).

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2011, 08:00:32 PM »
Spending a bit more time on the wiki at the moment.

As far as running emelfm2 as root goes, now I know to enter 'sudo su' in the terminal, hit return, type 'emelfm2', hit return, and I can now create directories, etc, as root in emelfm2. With this degree of knowledge, I could really wreck my TC! Fingers crossed...

Cheers, Jon.

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Re: Can't get UK keymap to load
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2012, 06:44:33 AM »
Your command was not complete, the path is to uk.kmap not to a file called uk. Still, it would be easier to use the kmap bootcode (kmap=qwerty/uk).

I know that this is a bit late to the party but after struggling the above is what I did and it works a treat. Just edit the extlinux.conf file (which in my case was at mnt/sda1/tce/boot/extlinux) and added in keymap = qwerty/uk.  This then loads in every time I boot up.