[OpenIndiana-discuss] NWAM / keyboard issues

Ewald Ertl ewald.ertl at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 07:35:40 UTC 2010


Hello,

Keyboard settings are moved somewhere after Build 134 to a service
configuration:

[ewer at solewer:~]$svccfg -s svc:/system/keymap:default listprop keymap/layout
keymap/layout  astring  German

http://illumos.org/issues/207#note-9


In my case it's a German keyboard.
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Rob McMahon <robmcmahoncv at googlemail.com>wrote:

>  First, thanks to the OpenIndiana people.  It's just what we've all been
> waiting for, and I now have it installed on my laptop at home, a Toshiba
> Satellite Pro P300 (which is where I am just now), and my workstation at
> work, a Sun Ultra 20 M2.
>
> Two things have been biting me.  On my (UK) laptop the keyboard layout is
> all over the place.
>
> bash-4.0$ lshal | fgrep input.x11
>  input.x11_driver = 'mouse'  (string)
>  input.x11_options.XkbVariant = ''  (string)
>  input.x11_options.XkbLayout = 'us'  (string)
>  input.x11_options.XkbModel = 'sun_type6_usb'  (string)
>  input.x11_options.mdriver = 'hotkey'  (string)
>  input.x11_driver = 'kbd'  (string)
>  input.x11_options.XkbRules = 'base'  (string)
> bash-4.0$
>
> It means <>"\|~@#£ are all moved around.  I guess I can mess around with
> configuration files, but how should this work automatically ?
>
>
HTH
Ewald


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