SuSE annoyance 0

[Robert A.Klahn]

I agree with Bill, this has the feel of something being wrong with your X configuration.

In /etc/X11, you should have a file called XF86Config. (Unlike RedHat, the active X config file is always called "XF86Config" in SuSE.)

In that file, you should have a section that almost looks like:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "keyboard"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbKeyCodes" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Actualy, this is what it SHOULD look like. You probably have "XkbLayout" equal to "de" or something like that, and you may have other differences.

Im not 100% sure about this, but I think you can make this change in YaST by going to "System", then "Select keyboard layout", then picking "English (US)".

Bob.

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:15:26 -0700
plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:

> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:04:21 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
> To: PLUG Discuss <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Re: SuSE annoyance 0
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> 
> 
> It's likely user based preferences for X. I'm not familiar with KDE,
> though. I'd start sifting through any ~/.X* stuff.
> 
> - billn
> 
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Trent Shipley wrote:
> 
> > 0) My old motherboard+chip refused to post.
> > 1) Got new motherboard+chip.
> > 2) Collected e-mail.
> > 3) Decided now was the time to switch from RH to SuSE.
> >
> > 4)  SuSE (8.0, personal) insists some keyboards must be in Deutsch; notably,
> > the initial X/KDE logon screen.  I type tshipley and it echos tshiplez.  The
> > other time I get a consistent German keyboard is when working in X as root.
> > Note that the *display* language is English in each case.
> >
> > What is interesting is that user tshipley always gets a US keyboard.  Even
> > root gets a US keyboard as long as he doesn't want a graphic interface.
> > (Note however, that running a command line console under KDE presents a
> > German keyboard.)
> >
> > Any ideas on a fix?
> >
> >
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