On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:16:35AM -0600, Daniel Manrique wrote: > For some reason the xlibs package has a "la" keyboard layout corresponding to > the "Laos" keyboard; this is different from the rest of > the system configuration which assumes "la" means "latinamerican". Thus, when > initially configuring the system and selecting "la", one > gets a latinamerican layout in text mode, but a Laos keyboard in graphical > mode, thus rendering X effectively unusable. The workaround > is to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and explicitly select the correct layout > which for some strange reason was renamed to "latam". > > This behavior should be consistent between the global layout selection and > that of X; either use the "latam" layout everywhere, or > rename xlib's laos keyboard to something else and return latinamerican to > "la".
This change was, oddly enough, done for consistency within XKB itself; la is the ISO country code for Laos. Other tools need to be changed to reflect this.
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