I am in Quebec Canada and my keyboard is a model pc105 with French Canadian Layout.
At the login prompt, the keyboard layout is USA standard. I have been trying to change it by redoing passwords, or via terminal mode. But it has not worked.
During the installation, at the appropriate point, I did specify the Canadian French layout.
I think that the problem is an old Debian bug, where I must default my system language to Canadian French, and then re-choose the keyboard layout, and then revert back to Canadian English.
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what is the output of localectl ?
gdm follows the x11 keymap not the keymap set in gnome.
you can set the x11 keymap to French Canadian with:
localectl set-x11-keymap ca pc105 fr
you say you have tried changing it via terminal mode. have you tried this ?
I will be trying it at the very first occasion, (after supper).
This has not worked for me.
localectl set-keymap ca pc105 fr as both root and as normal user (me).
Let me clarify what is the problem
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Boot ClrLinux
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Prompt appears with my logonID
my password begins with # as #myPassword001
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The login screen does not recognize the #myPassword001, it seems to be stuck on a USA English layout. That is, #myPassword001 needs the Super 3 for # and then the rest once logged in, is fine.
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Again, once logged in, with terminal mode or with GUI inteface, for root and non-admin user (me) the keyboard layout is correct.
is at the correct position
Any other ideas?
I have no problems with Fedora, SUSE Ubuntu. The same problem, though, occurs with popos.
you need to replace set-keymap with set-x11-keymap
set-keymap sets the console keymap. gdm uses the x11 keymap wich is set with set-x11-keymap
The set-x11-keymap ca pc105 fr did not work.
I will forego trying to solve this issue, as once logged into CLR, the proper keyboard layout is presented.
System Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
VC Keymap: cf
X11 Layout: ca
X11 Model: pc105
X11 Variant: fr
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I have the exact same issue, working on a machine with a French keyboard layout (azerty).
The most cumbersome solution : Xmodmap and X-keyboard-extension
The french mods :
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
keycode 9 = Escape Escape
keycode 10 = ampersand 1
keycode 11 = eacute 2 dead_tilde
keycode 12 = quotedbl 3 numbersign
keycode 13 = apostrophe 4 braceleft
keycode 14 = parenleft 5 bracketleft
keycode 15 = minus 6 bar
keycode 16 = egrave 7 dead_grave
keycode 17 = underscore 8 backslash
keycode 18 = ccedilla 9 asciicircum
keycode 19 = agrave 0 at
keycode 20 = parenright degree bracketright
keycode 21 = equal plus braceright
keycode 22 = BackSpace
keycode 23 = Tab Tab
keycode 24 = a
keycode 25 = z
keycode 26 = e E currency
keycode 27 = r
keycode 28 = t
keycode 29 = y
keycode 30 = u
keycode 31 = i
keycode 32 = o
keycode 33 = p
keycode 34 = dead_circumflex dead_diaeresis
keycode 35 = dollar sterling currency
keycode 36 = Return
keycode 37 = Control_L
keycode 38 = q
keycode 39 = s
keycode 40 = d
keycode 41 = f
keycode 42 = g
keycode 43 = h
keycode 44 = j
keycode 45 = k
keycode 46 = l
keycode 47 = m M
keycode 48 = ugrave percent
keycode 49 = twosuperior
keycode 50 = Shift_L
keycode 51 = asterisk mu
keycode 52 = w
keycode 53 = x
keycode 54 = c
keycode 55 = v
keycode 56 = b
keycode 57 = n
keycode 58 = comma question dead_cedilla
keycode 59 = semicolon period
keycode 60 = colon slash Multi_key
keycode 61 = exclam section
keycode 62 = Shift_R
keycode 63 = KP_Multiply
keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 65 = space space
keycode 66 = Caps_Lock
keycode 67 = F1 F11
keycode 68 = F2 F12
keycode 69 = F3 F13
keycode 70 = F4 F14
keycode 71 = F5 F15
keycode 72 = F6 F16
keycode 73 = F7 F17
keycode 74 = F8 F18
keycode 75 = F9 F19
keycode 76 = F10 F20
keycode 77 = Num_Lock
keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock
keycode 79 = KP_7
keycode 80 = KP_8
keycode 81 = KP_9
keycode 82 = KP_Subtract
keycode 83 = KP_4
keycode 84 = KP_5
keycode 85 = KP_6
keycode 86 = KP_Add
keycode 87 = KP_1
keycode 88 = KP_2
keycode 89 = KP_3
keycode 90 = KP_0
keycode 92 = Sys_Req
keycode 94 = less greater bar
keycode 95 = F11 F11
keycode 96 = F12 F12
keycode 107 = Delete
keycode 108 = KP_Enter
keycode 109 = Control_R
keycode 112 = KP_Divide
keycode 113 = Mode_switch
keycode 114 = Break
keycode 110 = Find
keycode 98 = Up
keycode 99 = Prior
keycode 100 = Left
keycode 102 = Right
keycode 104 = Down
keycode 105 = Next
keycode 106 = Insert
! right windows-logo key
! in "windows" keyboards the postion of the key is annoying, is where AltGr
! usually resides, so go definie it as AltGr
keycode 116 = Mode_switch
! right windows-menu key
keycode 117 = Multi_key
add Mod1 = Alt_L
add Mod2 = Mode_switch
I have a similar issue. During installation, I select the Canadian French keyboard layout, and on reboot, the layout presented us USA utf-8. That posses a potential problem, for if I use a character like # or ?, these are in different locations.