Fedora 10 and UK keyboard layout

[dexter]

2009/2/20 Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 17:01:41 M A Young wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
>> > During the installation of Fedora 10 I choose UK for the keyboard
>> > layout, but I when I log in gnome is using American layout.
>> >
>> > If I add the UK in System->Preferences->Hardware->Keyboard it seems to
>> > not make difference. I make it the default, but again, the layout is
>> > american.
>>
>> You can force it to use a UK keyboard with the section
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>          Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>>          Driver      "kbd"
>>          Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>>          Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
>> EndSection
>> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>
> Or, if you are a KDE user, use SystemSettings > Regional & Language.

Or use the desktop neutral commandline alternative in rc.local:
setxkbmap -model evdev -layout gb

...dex