Choose boot keymap in GutsyGibbon Tribe 5
Bug #134742 reported by
Jugaro
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
X11 and Console keyboards are set to US and there is no way to change this in LiveCD boot menu. If you want this Ubuntu to be really usable, just let the user to select his keymap!
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| Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote | #1 |
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| Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote | #2 |
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| Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote | #3 |
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Inside the GUI you can choose "System :: Preferences :: Keyboard" switch to the "Layouts" tab. Then add your layout and remove the US one. In the console, things are a little bit trickier becayse a normal "loadkeys xyz" doesn't work (/usr/share/keymaps is empty in the live CD). Instead you must edit the "console-setup" configuration file. The easiest way to do that is to launch this command: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup". This will give you a console based menu system where you answer a couple of basic question. For my swedish keyboard I went with pc105 (generic 105-key (intl) pc), sweden, sweden, right alt, no compose key, utf-8, latin1/latin5, vga font and fontsize 16 (which on my widescreen laptop looks like the good old MS-DOS font).
I agree with you though, it would be very helpful if the live CD had better out of the box support for non-US keyboards (through for example, a startup menu or whatever).