Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:25:53 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-US keyboard and KDM Message-ID: <20081111082553.a41d76e1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811110745270.22599@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811110745270.22599@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:47:37 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> wrote: > I installed KDE and the KDM display manager in FreeBSD. > On my portable I have a non-US keyboard (a european country layout), > in KDE I can set it to the appropriate keyboard layout. > KDM login window is still in US qwerty keyboard, which makes me have > to enter my password with different keystrokes :-) How to set an > appropriate keyboard in KDM? I don't know, but you can set your keyboard layout generally for X, so you have this layout everywhere (e. g. when you're running something different than KDE, as well as in xdm or kdm). Just change your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fit your needs, according to this example: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" EndSection -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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