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Re: New LXKeymap version with autostart support

 

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

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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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