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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