Re: [Sheflug] I've screwed up my keyboard

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Jonathan Machell wrote:
> 
> Hello people,
> 
> me again. The subject says it all. I press shift and 2, for example, and get
> the 'at' symbol, and, naturally enough, when I press what should be the 'at'
> symbol I get a double quote. God knows where my pound sign has gone.
> 
> I know the key codes of all the offending keys but not the knowledge of how to
> get everything back to normal.  I tried, believe me I tried, but I think I made
> it worse.
> 
> YaST was no good at all.
> 
> Several people use my machine so I need to make these changes from root (I
> guess), so that they affect all users (who, unfortunately, often don't know
> which key outputs the pipe symbol, the hash symbol, et cetera).
> 
> I use SuSE 6.3.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan.

If this post gets through....

sounds like you've defaulted back to a US keyboard layout, instead of
the GB you want.

 To solve this is for X edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the line that
says

XkbLayout "us"

and change it to

XkbLayout "gb"

now, I'm having to hunt around for the system wide config file for the
console and keyboards....I use "setup" on a RH box, if SUSE has
that..use it dead easy...if not...erm....

 Try changing the line in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to KEYTABLE="uk" from
I assume KEYTABLE="us"

 - not sure on this one, tho: #include <disclaimer.h>

Baz.

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