On Mittwoch 08 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > 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. :)
which is so idiotic I won't even comment on that any further.
