Uk keyboard in gnome

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Apr 28 16:11:55 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 11:17 +0100, Bill Smith wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 14:22 +0100, Bill Smith wrote:
> >> System is 6.2-Stable as of 24th April, gnome was compiled, with no 
> >> problems on 25th April.
> >> Despite selecting the UK keyboard in system prefs (as user) I am still 
> >> getting the US keyboard.
> > 
> > Works here.  Make sure you select the UK layout prior to opening your
> > application.  For example, if you open a terminal window while in the
> > USA layout, then change your layout to UK, that terminal window will
> > maintain the USA layout.  Open a new window to get the new UK layout.
> 
> Tried that Joe, does not make any difference, not even the next day 
> after it has been off all night, any other suggestions?

Sorry.  It just works for me.  I open the Keyboard capplet, add the UK
layout, double-click it, open a gnome-terminal, and Shift+3 gives me £
instead of #.  Ports that affect layout are libxklaiver,
gnome-control-center, and of course the X ports.  Note: my machine is
still using X.Org 6.9.

Joe

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