2018-03-17 16:01 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarb...@posteo.de>:
> Hello Catonano
>
> Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Can I set up the keyboard layout and my system locale (Italian) for my
> Gnome desktop in my conf.scm file ?
> >
> > Otherwise I have to click around in every throaway virtual machine I
> create in order to be able to use the desktop environment
> >
> > Thanks
>
> To set the keyboard layout in my config.scm I replaced %desktop-services
> with this:
>
> (modify-services %desktop-services
> (slim-service-type config =>
> (slim-configuration
> (inherit config)
> (startx (xorg-start-command
> #:configuration-file
> (xorg-configuration-file
> ;; Setup X to use a swiss german keyboard
> layout.
> #:extra-config
> '("Section \"InputClass\"
> Identifier \"keyboard-all\"
> Option \"XkbLayout\" \"ch\" ; <~ replace \"ch\" with \"it\"
> MatchIsKeyboard \"on\"
> EndSection")))))))
>
> This sets the default keyboard layout of X to ch. All you have to do is
> replace the \"ch\" with \"it\". It has the added benefit of setting the
> keyboard layout in SLIM so that you do not have to worry about special
> characters in your login password.
>
>
Thank you Diego !
Would you mind to share the whole file ?
I tried to copy and paste your contribution but I messed it up, I can't
makkke it workk and I didn't keep the previous version :-/
