Keyboards and locales

[Yuri Chornoivan]

написане Sat, 11 May 2013 15:07:06 +0300, Michael Bauer  
<fios at akerbeltz.org>:

> Having sorted out (pending acceptance by a glibc maintainer) the locale
> data bugs (big thanks to Yuri and Claude) the next thing on my list of
> locale related issues is to check the default keyboard settings
> associated with gd-GB.
>
> I'm assuming a localized version of Ubuntu comes with a default keyboard
> which is specified somewhere. I've tried googling this but all I'm
> finding is instructions on how to change it but not how to identify and
> potentially change the default that's set during the first installation.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>

Hi,

The default keyboards are defined in xkeyboard-config [1] files [2].

If there is no localized layout file the defaults from  
keyboard-configuration [3] will be used.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Yuri

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols

[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/keyboard-configuration