Re: [Sheflug] I've screwed up my keyboard

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Use YaST, go to:

Adjustments of Installation
Select Keymap
Qwerty/uk

And continue. Select accept, and Viola, console GB keyboard. For some
reason when I ran SuSE 6.2 (I use 7 now) it defaulted to either german or
spanish at random. Maybe I'm more continental than I think? ;-)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> Jonathan Machell wrote:
> > 
> > Hello people,
> > 
> > me again. The subject says it all. I press shift and 2, for example, and get
> > the 'at' symbol, and, naturally enough, when I press what should be the 'at'
> > symbol I get a double quote. God knows where my pound sign has gone.
> > 
> > I know the key codes of all the offending keys but not the knowledge of how to
> > get everything back to normal.  I tried, believe me I tried, but I think I made
> > it worse.
> > 
> > YaST was no good at all.
> > 
> > Several people use my machine so I need to make these changes from root (I
> > guess), so that they affect all users (who, unfortunately, often don't know
> > which key outputs the pipe symbol, the hash symbol, et cetera).
> > 
> > I use SuSE 6.3.
> > 
> > Please help.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jonathan.
> 
> If this post gets through....
> 
> sounds like you've defaulted back to a US keyboard layout, instead of
> the GB you want.
> 
>  To solve this is for X edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the line that
> says
> 
> XkbLayout "us"
> 
> and change it to
> 
> XkbLayout "gb"
> 
> now, I'm having to hunt around for the system wide config file for the
> console and keyboards....I use "setup" on a RH box, if SUSE has
> that..use it dead easy...if not...erm....
> 
>  Try changing the line in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to KEYTABLE="uk" from
> I assume KEYTABLE="us"
> 
>  - not sure on this one, tho: #include <disclaimer.h>
> 
> Baz.
> 
> --
> Barrie J. Bremner
> 
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