[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with mate-settings-daemon

[Jean-Pierre André]

This works, thanks.

Jean-Pierre

stes at PANDORA.BE wrote on 9/2/21 9:47 AM:
> 
>> Can somebody tell me at least in which file the keyboard layout is
>> stored, so that I can fix it through ssh (the keyboard which can
>> be queried its layout is still to be invented).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a French keyboard on my OpenIndiana system.
> 
> See "man kbd" and the command : kbd -s French  to change to a different layout
> ("kbd -s" for the available languages)
> 
> A persistent change can be done via the SMF repository, to be safe,
> 
> beadm create -a azerty
> 
> and reboot into "azerty".
> 
> This is a BE just to backup the SMF before you change it.
> 
> Then run the following script:
> 
> $ cat mk-french.sh
> svccfg -s svc:/system/keymap:default <<EOF
> setprop keymap/layout = astring: French
> refresh
> listprop keymap/layout
> EOF
> 
> 
> Warning:  by running the above script you change the SMF repo, which contains the keyboard setting in the "keymap/layout" property of system/keymap.
> 
> 
> So I think it is best to first create a BE for this, just to be safe before modifying the SMF repo.
> 
> David Stes
>