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Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts

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On 2016-06-10, Levi S. Darrell <levidarrell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:31:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> 
>> I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam" in your
>> /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default.  That's
>> for X itself (I know nothing about LXDE) but also the VCs.
>> 
>> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration will update the VC keyboards.
>> I always run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup at the same time because
>> I sometimes forget which configures what.
>> 
>> HOWEVER, only run those two commands when X isn't running.  At all.
>> Not in a VC that you reached with Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6].  If X is
>> running, all sorts of weirdnesses result.  This might be the answer
>> to your other posting.
>> 
>> Cheers, David.
>> 
>
> Thank you very much for this suggestion. They keyboard layouts are now
> working swimmingly from the bash shell. Now the problem is getting
> them to work in LXDE when I start X Server. I will consult LXDE's
> documentation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Levi
>

See the relevant Debian doumentation[1], in the particular the section
"How does it propagate to X?".

1: https://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/configure-input.html

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Liam

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Locales, Keyboard Layouts Levi Darrell <levidarrell@gmail.com> - 2016-06-09 19:00 +0200
  Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-10 06:40 +0200
    Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts "Levi S. Darrell" <levidarrell@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 16:20 +0200
      Re: Locales, Keyboard Layouts Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 11:50 +0200

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