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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    [gentoo-user]  Re: new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date:       2008-07-28 22:35:15
Message-ID: g6lhj7$ufe$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Sven Köhler wrote:
> So what's the answer? How do i do it properly? How do i tell xorg-x11 to 
> use "de" layout for all hot-plugged keyboards?
> Because gdm offers no keyboard-settings, as far as i know. And since my 
> keyboard is "qwertz", i see a "y" when typing a "z" in gdm. gnome 
> settings kick in AFTER logging in - so that's pretty useless for gdm.

In xorg.conf, try this:

   Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier "Keyboard1"
       Driver     "evdev"
       Option     "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
       Option     "XkbRules"   "xorg"
       Option     "XkbModel"   "evdev"
       Option     "XkbLayout"  "de"
   EndSection

Make sure the keyboard is used in the "ServerLayout" section:

   Section "ServerLayout"
       # ...
       InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   EndSection

For a Gnome panel you may have to emerge some package.  At least for 
KDE, the "Keyboard Layouts" entry in KDE's control panel was missing 
until I emerged kxkb.  If you get the Gnome config panel to work, you 
must select "evdev device" or similar, not "pc104".  If you don't need 
to switch between layouts (DE to US and back), you don't need the Gnome 
panel at all.  The entry in xorg.conf is enough.


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