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Title: Change keymap?
Post by: banditman on February 17, 2010, 03:58:44 PM

Have followed the instructions for installing kmap.tcz and doing the command loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/uk.kmap but no change takes place still has default u.s keymap on my aspire one netbook

any help would be great :-\

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: banditman on February 17, 2010, 04:50:21 PM

Well Ive discovered that after doing ctrl + alt +backspace then restarting x with startx it seems to work or at least partly i get the hash key and @ keys in the right place but still no sign of the good old u.k pound not anywhere on the keyboard!!!
So still not right  ???

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: curaga on February 17, 2010, 05:01:56 PM

Did you drop to console before giving the command? It does not work completely inside X.

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: banditman on February 17, 2010, 05:17:42 PM

Yes I killed x and restarted it again with startx and the keys changed but not fully however when I did a reboot they were back to us keys again, perhaps this is something to do with adding a boot code?

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: curaga on February 18, 2010, 03:52:29 AM

If kmaps.tcz is in your tce directory, and loaded on boot, you can use the bootcode kmap=uk to have the kmap loaded on boot.

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: SamK on February 18, 2010, 06:12:35 AM

Quote from: banditman on February 17, 2010, 03:58:44 PM

Have followed the instructions for installing kmap.tcz and doing the command loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/uk.kmap but no change takes place still has default u.s keymap on my aspire one netbook

any help would be great :-\

I run the command you mention from /opt/bootlocal.sh

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# Load the UK keyboard.  This requires kmaps.tcz to be installed and loaded at bootup.
loadkmap < /usr/share/kmap/uk.kmap
As I understand it, commands in this file are run on each boot-up, using root user credentials,  before the GUI is started.  I find it works reliably when run in this way.
   

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: banditman on February 18, 2010, 06:47:31 AM

Thanks for that the only way I got it to work in the end was by installing xorg :-\ and that works ok except when using lxterminal it wont type a pound sign or for that matter it wont in this here forum!! but it does type correctly in xterm and when using beaver etc!! weird :o another thing I just cant seem to get working is the touchpad scrolling I have setup xorg.conf and on a reboot it works fine just once then after that nothing!!

Title: Re: Change keymap?
Post by: SamK on February 18, 2010, 06:57:27 AM

Quote from: banditman on February 18, 2010, 06:47:31 AM

Thanks for that the only way I got it to work in the end was by installing xorg :-\ and that works ok except when using lxterminal it wont type a pound sign...

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