The layout option names and their descriptions are in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
For UK English, you should use setxkbmap gb See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_Venn_Diagram.png On Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:07:44 AM UTC-4, Graham Gerrard wrote: > > Thanks for the instructions below. However, I cant get setxkbmap to make > a difference in the .xinitrc file. I am trying to change > keyboard to a UK keyboard in Notebook, but nothing seems to work. > Successfully changed the console to UK by altering > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. Please advise on appropriate settings for > setxkbmap... tried "setxkbmap uk" and variations. Is there a list of > values that I can use? > > Graham > > On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:03:42 AM UTC+1, jori.ma...@uta.fi wrote: >> >> On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> > I added some instructions at >> > http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance#For_the_graphical_web_browser >> >> Thanks! >> >> > If you want to distribute the Finnish keyboard layout version to your >> > students (perhaps with a choice of default worksheets) you just have to >> > make the change once and then use File->Export appliance in VirtualBox. >> >> Then I should make this every time when .ova is changed. I try to avoid >> this kind of work. >> >> Could there be some kind of copy-and-paste solution or workaround? Say, >> have /home/gui/.xinitrc begin with >> >> setxkbmap $(cat /home/sage/keyboard.conf) >> >> so that user could just copy from wiki >> >> f=file('/home/sage/keyboard.conf', 'w'); f.write("fi"); f.close(); >> >> and paste it to worksheet? Maybe even have worksheet ready with cells >> like >> that for different languages? >> >> -- >> Jori Mäntysalo >> > -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
