Fedora 10 and UK keyboard layout

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Fri Feb 20 17:01:41 UTC 2009


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

 	Michael Young




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