help... messed up laptop keyboard in suse 10.1

A LeDonne aledonne.listmail at gmail.com
Mon Aug 28 09:35:31 MST 2006


On 8/24/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> OK. I installed opensuse 10.1 to try out. I changed
> the keyboard layout to what I thought would work, but
> now it doesn't. I can open yast, but the keyboard
> layout windows goes past the bottom of the screen so I
> can't slick the button to apply the change. I tried
> some alt keys, but either i didn't guess the right
> ones or its not working.
>
> anyone know how to change the keyboard layout in CLI?
> Or some gui trick to solve my problem?
>

If you open a shell or log in on a virtual console, and unset DISPLAY,
then when you sudo /sbin/yast2 it should run in ncurses (terminal)
mode. The menus and such should be the same as the Qt GUI version.

-A


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