Sven Köhler wrote:
So what's the answer? How do i do it properly? How do i tell xorg-x11 to
use "de" layout for all hot-plugged keyboards?
Because gdm offers no keyboard-settings, as far as i know. And since my
keyboard is "qwertz", i see a "y" when typing a "z" in gdm. gnome
settings kick in AFTER logging in - so that's pretty useless for gdm.
In xorg.conf, try this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "evdev"
Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection
Make sure the keyboard is used in the "ServerLayout" section:
Section "ServerLayout"
# ...
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
For a Gnome panel you may have to emerge some package. At least for
KDE, the "Keyboard Layouts" entry in KDE's control panel was missing
until I emerged kxkb. If you get the Gnome config panel to work, you
must select "evdev device" or similar, not "pc104". If you don't need
to switch between layouts (DE to US and back), you don't need the Gnome
panel at all. The entry in xorg.conf is enough.
