Keyboard

[Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI]

On Sunday 03 May 2009, my mailbox was graced by a missive
 from Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> who wrote:

> > Installed KUbuntu in French, on a box that has a Brazil-Portuguese
> > keyboard.
> > The install put a French keyboard in, without offering me a choice.
> > I have changed the keyboard to pt-BR in KDE so the keyboard is recognized
> > as it should by all apps.
> > I have changed it in /etc/xorg.conf so it is also recognized by the login
> > manager where I type the user's password.
> > But where, oh where do I change it so it is recognized by the basic
> >system, when I go to a tty with Ctrl-Alt-F1 to do a bit command line work ?

> I'm not sure it is the right place but look at you /etc/environment.
> I got:
> $ cat /etc/environment
> PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/gam
>es" LANGUAGE="sv_SE:sv:en_GB:en"
> LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"

As a transfuge from Mandriva, trying to set up a Kubuntu box, I am used to 
finding the KEYBOARD and KEYTABLES affectation in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

But it seems that Kubuntu does not use those variables.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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