Newbee question - Keyboard UK

[Nicklas]

Hi,

Where can i change my keyboard to a UK full version?

Thaks

[stephenw10]

Hmmm, kbdcontrol?  :-\

Steve

[Nicklas]

I tried several but just can't get my | key working :-(

[stephenw10]

I don't have a keyboard on my box so I haven't had that problem.
'|' works fine via ssh.  ;)

Steve

[Cry Havok]

From memory, it's <shift><~> to get '|' on a UK keyboard when the mapping is set to US. If it isn't that it's one of the nearby keys.</shift>

[stephenw10]

Looking at the keyboard maps, uk.cp850.kbd contains the line:
086   ''    '|'    fs     fs     ''    '|'    fs     fs      O

I.e. | is shift+\ which seems correct.

Steve

Edit: As do all the uk keyboard maps so perhaps it's not changing map correctly.

[Nicklas]

Steve, thanks a lot, I did as follow in the shell:  kbdcontrol -l uk.cp850.kbd and it works!!!   Yippie

Will it remember this after a reboot?  No :-((  how to get this done, sorry to be such a newbee! looking in the man, sorry will try first myself…

hmmmm, You may set variables in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local in order to configure the keyboard at boot time.
But none of these files are there, before i mess up everything is it safe to create a /etc/rc.conf and add the keymap in it?
Or better do a new clean install and figure out what keyboard driver to choose from install point?

[stephenw10]

Clean install would be safest.
You can use shellcmd in your config.xml file in the system section.
E.g.
<shellcmd>kbdcontrol -l uk.cp850.kbd</shellcmd>

You may have to include the complete path to kbdcontrol. At least this will get carried across an upgrade.

Steve

[Nicklas]

Hi Steve,

I had to put it indeed in the config.xml because i lost it after the updates.