No swedish keyboard in X but in console

[undulat]

I have run into a problem. I've got swedish keys working fine in the console but in X it seems to use an american keyboard layout.
I have no idea on how to debug this so any ideas are welcome.

In my xorg.conf I have Option "XkbLayout" "se"

[durian]

Which DE/WM are you running? I had the same problem, which I could solve by setting the keyboard also to Swedish in the keyboard settings of XFCE.

Maybe something like that works in your case too,

-peter

[d2_racing]

Hi, you should read this thread : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-722498.html

[undulat]

Which DE/WM are you running? I had the same problem, which I could solve by setting the keyboard also to Swedish in the keyboard settings of XFCE.

Maybe something like that works in your case too,

-peter

I use twm since I have yet not installed very much, but I will look into installing another WM and see if that can solve the problem. (it might be that twm is too "stupid" to be able to handle other keyboards?)

[cach0rr0]

Do you use an xorg.conf or no?

In order to get a UK keyboard layout in X, I had to have my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
      <append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
    </match>

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

      <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
           keyboard otherwise). -->
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>

      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Note the 'gb' line.

Or if using an xorg.conf and NOT using HAL (since HAL will take precedence)

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc101"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

again, change 'gb' to 'se' (I think it's 'se')

[VoidMage]

@cach0rr0:About half of you fdi file is redundant and IIRC adding an empty
XkbVariant tends to break things.

[cach0rr0]

@cach0rr0:About half of you fdi file is redundant and IIRC adding an empty
XkbVariant tends to break things.

No clue, I just copied over one of the defauls, edited it, and well..things work now
The pipe character on a UK keyboard is to the left of the Z, and well, doing anything in a terminal without pipe was excruciating

[undulat]

Do you use an xorg.conf or no?

In order to get a UK keyboard layout in X, I had to have my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi like so:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
      <append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
    </match>

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

      <!-- If we're using Linux, we use evdev by default (falling back to
           keyboard otherwise). -->
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
             string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>

      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Note the 'gb' line.

Or if using an xorg.conf and NOT using HAL (since HAL will take precedence)

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc101"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

again, change 'gb' to 'se' (I think it's 'se')

Well, to be honest,I have no idea if I'm using hal or not since I've tested a lot of things. Here is what I do know:

I have hal as a use flag, and hald is running. but removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf stops X from starting so I guess that file is used.
But adding your changes did not make any difference.
I should add that I've got 4 different files and I think they are all related to the keyboard

10-input-policy.fdi 10-keymap.fdi 10-x11-input.fdi 10-xinput-configuration.fdi

so I think I need some help cleaning up this mess. The first one seems to have nothing to do with keyboard but the last three all have the "se" string in them.