topic title: How to set up a UK keyboard
Posts: 4
madwoollything
Joined: 08 Dec 2010
#1
I'm a new user to AntiX and I'm trying to set up a UK keyboard on an IBM T22.

Having tried several suggestions from other posts such as editing /etc/default/keyboard - nothing seems to work and the key mapping is all wrong.

Has anyone got a UK keyboard working with AntiX? How do you do this?
Posts: 1,228
secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#2
Did you try to run as root

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dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
- then reboot (or restart xserver - ctrl+alt+backspace).
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Stuart O'mahony
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
#3
I had this problem, and resolved the issue by editing the keyboard file at /etc/default. With a text editor (I use Geany) find and edit the line that begins XKBLAYOUT... to read XKBLAYOUT="gb". In a terminal:

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su
geany /etc/default/keyboard
Save and shutdown Geany, then type exit at the command line. You may have to reboot to see the changes.
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madwoollything
Joined: 08 Dec 2010
#4
Stuart O'mahony wrote:I had this problem, and resolved the issue by editing the keyboard file at /etc/default. With a text editor (I use Geany) find and edit the line that begins XKBLAYOUT... to read XKBLAYOUT="gb". In a terminal:

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su
geany /etc/default/keyboard
Save and shutdown Geany, then type exit at the command line. You may have to reboot to see the changes.
Brilliant and thankyou.

Did as suggested and changed"uk" to"gb" and all is now working well.
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Stuart O'mahony
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
#5
Glad you got it to work.
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bounder
Joined: 22 Apr 2011
#6
Hiya Stuart, i also borrowed your remedy for the uk keymap. It really did sort it out big thanks mate!