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Re: New LXKeymap version with autostart support

 

Am 05.11.2011 14:02, schrieb Gabriel Salles:
> I just saw the forum and I believe that there should be an option to change
> the global keymap... Or at least the login manager keymap
Yeah I guess you are right.
But notice that this requires root rights.
Also if someone knows how to change the keymap for tty and Xorg (I guess
the keymap is set in /etc/default/keyboard) directly without
reconfiguring console-setup then please mail me.

>
> Att,
>
> Gabriel Salles
>
>
> 2011/11/5 Ali Linx <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hello Leszek,
>>
>> Kindly have a look at this:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1874069
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> as I got a lot of requests to implement an autostart feature for
>>> lxkeymap I did it.
>>> LXKeymap 0.5 is now capable to store its keymap configuration into a
>>> file that it reads out during autostart.
>>> Therefore I wrote a little *.desktop file that I put in the global
>>> /etc/xdg/autostart which contains the new command "lxkeymap -a" to
>>> trigger the autostart function of lxkeymap. The Keymap configuration
>>> will be stored locally in your home directory ( ~/.config/lxkeymap.cfg)
>>> and is easily editable either by using lxkeymap and set a new keymap or
>>> by editing it by hand.
>>> You can get this version from here:
>>>
>>> http://content.wuala.com/contents/leszek/Dokumente/Share/lxkeymap_0.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb?dl=1
>>>
>>> If you notice any bugs then report them here:
>>> http://launchpad.net/lxkeymap
>>>
>>> Also I guess there is a bug in lxdm, because changing the keyboard
>>> layout in the session and logging out to lxdm does not restore the
>>> global keymap but uses the one choosen in the session.
>>> This could be also fixed by simply calling "lxkeymap -a" from within
>>> lxdm but as lxkeymap uses only a local configuration it would then
>>> create and use the root accounts .config/lxkeymap.cfg file. So you need
>>> to create this first by executing lxkeymap as root if you want to have a
>>> different keymap globally+lxdm and your user accounts.
>>>
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