On 2016-06-10, Levi S. Darrell <levidarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:31:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> >> I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam" in your >> /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default. That's >> for X itself (I know nothing about LXDE) but also the VCs. >> >> dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration will update the VC keyboards. >> I always run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup at the same time because >> I sometimes forget which configures what. >> >> HOWEVER, only run those two commands when X isn't running. At all. >> Not in a VC that you reached with Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6]. If X is >> running, all sorts of weirdnesses result. This might be the answer >> to your other posting. >> >> Cheers, David. >> > > Thank you very much for this suggestion. They keyboard layouts are now > working swimmingly from the bash shell. Now the problem is getting > them to work in LXDE when I start X Server. I will consult LXDE's > documentation. > > Regards, > > Levi >
See the relevant Debian doumentation[1], in the particular the section "How does it propagate to X?". 1: https://pkg-xorg.alioth.debian.org/howto/configure-input.html -- Liam