Distro Review and Quick Installation Guide

General - Installation - First look - Documentation - Localization - Mounting drives - Multimedia
Networking - Printing - Availability - Conclusion

easys
easys v2.1  

Localization

My mother tongue is Croatian, so I wanted to set a Croatian keyboard layout. I used KDE Control Center:

I got my layout. For now.
Next time I restarted and login (as root again) I noticed I lost my keyboard layout. So I did it again. Set it up and rebooted computer. And lost it again.
I tried to open terminal (aterm) and entered:

root@t-notebook:/#setxkbmap hr

which also didn't help. Time to get a little dirty handed.

I found /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edited it.
Click on the System icon on desktop to open file manager (Konqueror), click on the root folder, then /etc directory and than X11 directory.
Right click on the xorg.conf and choose open with --> Kwrite.

Find this section below, remove the comment (#) from line:

Option     "XkbLayout"     "de"

and change layout "de" for the one that suits you. This is what mine looks like.

Option     "XkbLayout"     "hr"

Check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols or Internet for list of available layouts:

# **********************************************************************
# Core keyboard's InputDevice section
# **********************************************************************

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier             "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
# For most OSs the protocol can be omitted (it defaults to "Standard").
# When using XQUEUE (only for SVR3 and SVR4, but not Solaris),
# uncomment the following line.

#    Option     "Protocol"      "Xqueue"

# Set the keyboard auto repeat parameters.  Not all platforms implement
# this.

#    Option     "AutoRepeat"    "500 5"

# Specifiy which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)).

#    Option     "Xleds" "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.

#    Option     "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a European
# keyboard, you will probably want to use one of:
#
#    Option     "XkbModel"      "pc102"
Option     "XkbModel"      "pc105"
#
# If you have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#
#    Option     "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
#
# If you have a US "windows" keyboard you will want:
#
#    Option     "XkbModel"      "pc104"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#
Option     "XkbLayout"     "hr"
#
# or:
#
#    Option     "XkbLayout"     "de"
#    Option     "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#
#    Option     "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
#
# These are the default XKB settings for X.Org
#
#    Option     "XkbRules"      "xorg"
#    Option     "XkbModel"      "pc101"
#    Option     "XkbLayout"     "us"
#    Option     "XkbVariant"    ""
#    Option     "XkbOptions"    ""
#
EndSection

After reboot my keyboard layout settings were OK.