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From: Mike Jones on 4 Jan 2010 12:51
Responding to boltar2003:

> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:16:04 GMT
> Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote:
>>Probably already been done, but can anyone tell me what I need to edit
>>to get a UK keyboard in the new Xorg in Slack 13?
>>
>>Its apparently not handled by xorg.conf now, and HAL is suppose to deal
>>with this stuff. However, its doesn't on my test machine (plus I kill
>>HAL after first boot as its a damn nuisance), and I recall there was
>>something that could be dropped into .xinitrc to set the keyboard
>>regional setting.
>
> I took a rather simpler approach than others - instead of messing about
> with HAL or xorg.conf I just added the line:
>
> setxkbmap -layout gb
>
> into /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>
> It would probably work in ~/.xinitrc too but I haven't tried it.
>
> B2003


I did copy that config line over from a 12.2 installation, but it didn't
work in the new 13.0

I'm looking forward to 13.2, which looks inevitable.

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From: Grant on 4 Jan 2010 12:56
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:11 GMT, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote:

>
>I'm looking forward to 13.2, which looks inevitable.

Oh? Did I miss 13.1?

Grant.
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From: Mike Jones on 4 Jan 2010 18:33
Responding to Grant:

> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:11 GMT, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm looking forward to 13.2, which looks inevitable.
>
> Oh? Did I miss 13.1?
>
> Grant.


Not yet. ;\


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