never mind, I managed to makke it work
Thanks !
2018-03-17 19:24 GMT+01:00 Catonano <caton...@gmail.com>:
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> 2018-03-17 16:01 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarb...@posteo.de>:
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>> Hello Catonano
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>> Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes:
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>> > Can I set up the keyboard layout and my system locale (Italian) for my
>> Gnome desktop in my conf.scm file ?
>> >
>> > Otherwise I have to click around in every throaway virtual machine I
>> create in order to be able to use the desktop environment
>> >
>> > Thanks
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>> To set the keyboard layout in my config.scm I replaced %desktop-services
>> with this:
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>> (modify-services %desktop-services
>> (slim-service-type config =>
>> (slim-configuration
>> (inherit config)
>> (startx (xorg-start-command
>> #:configuration-file
>> (xorg-configuration-file
>> ;; Setup X to use a swiss german keyboard
>> layout.
>> #:extra-config
>> '("Section \"InputClass\"
>> Identifier \"keyboard-all\"
>> Option \"XkbLayout\" \"ch\" ; <~ replace \"ch\" with \"it\"
>> MatchIsKeyboard \"on\"
>> EndSection")))))))
>>
>> This sets the default keyboard layout of X to ch. All you have to do is
>> replace the \"ch\" with \"it\". It has the added benefit of setting the
>> keyboard layout in SLIM so that you do not have to worry about special
>> characters in your login password.
>>
>>
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> Thank you Diego !
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> Would you mind to share the whole file ?
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> I tried to copy and paste your contribution but I messed it up, I can't
> makkke it workk and I didn't keep the previous version :-/
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