On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > >but now you can skip the FDI unless you have >> some customized configuration > > customized like a german layout with a german keyboard.. I wasn't the first > nor the last one stepping into that trap.
I only have US keyboards so I can't say how it should be done. :) According to the message when you emerge hal, it says: * If you wish to use a non US layout, you may do so by executing: * setxkbmap <layout> or by utilizing your Desktop Environment's * Keyboard Layout Settings mechanism. * Under GNOME, this is gnome-keyboard-properties, and under KDE * it is kxkb. So I think setting it in xorg.conf is easier, but at least it is not absolutely required if you can run setxkbmap in your xdm startup. :)
