Keyboard layout trashed

Dave Bolt IT Solutions dave at davebolt.co.uk
Fri Feb 27 17:35:29 UTC 2009


All,
Curiously, I just deleted the USA layout (having previously added the UK 
layout), and the UK layout took over as soon as I OK'ed the dialog, then I 
rebooted and found that the UK layout still applied.
Much simpler than reverting to an older file :)
HTH
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Paul Adams" <colin at colina.demon.co.uk>
To: "Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora." 
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Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Keyboard layout trashed


>>>>>> "Mogens" == Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> writes:
>
>    Mogens> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>    >>>>>>> "Mogens" == Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> writes:
>    >>
>    Mogens> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> >> How can I select the correct layout?
>    >>
>    Mogens> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484488
>    >>
>    >> Thank-you.
>    >>
>    >> But there is no fix.
>    >>
>    >> How do you revert the file mentioned?
>
>    Mogens> I got it from a machine not yet "updated".
>
>    Mogens> I've put it on our ftp server:
>
>    Mogens> ftp://ftp.crc.dk/pub/f10keyboard/10-x11-keymap.fdi
>
>    Mogens> Use it at your own risk!
>
>    Mogens> The file goes into the folder
>    Mogens> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/
>
>    Mogens> Store the original file in a safe place, you might need it
>    Mogens> when a real fix is available.
>
>    Mogens> A reboot is necessary afterwards, just restarting X isn't
>    Mogens> enough.
>
> Thank you very much Mogens.
>
> That worked, but ONLY after I deleted the USA layout (just adding and
> selecting a UK layout was ineffective).
>
> Anyway, I have my \\\\\ bacl again.
>
> Thanks again.
> -- 
> Colin Adams
> Preston Lancashire
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