On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, James Laska <jlaska(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 20:19 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, James Laska <jlaska(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select
> >> English(UK) - and when I logout and back in that sticks - but whatever
> >> I do I cannot get a UK keyboard!
> >>
> >> I also looked for settings in gdm ahead of login to see if a UK
> >> keyboard option exists - and I can't find any -
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a workaround at this stage? Without a UK keyboard
> >> it is difficult to progress since many passwords use have other
> >> characters than A-Z/0-9 ....
> >
> > What is present in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ?
>
> KEYTABLE="us"
> MODEL="pc105+inet"
> LAYOUT="us
Can you confirm whether the following update resolves this issue?
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/control-center-3.0.0-1.fc15,gnome...
This package fixes the crash when entering the keyboard option - but
it did not immediately allow me to set/get a UK keyboard. I tried
Adam's suggestion of using system-config-keyboard but that did not
solve the change of keyboard issue either - eventually I went into the
region and language setting and added English(UK) - I am not sure at
what point I realised but in the top taskbar in Gnome3 there appeared
"en" which was not there before (presumably when adding the
English(UK) option) - but clicking on that then allowed me to switch
to English(UK) and from that point I did have a UK keybooard mapping
active.
I don't know if there is a simpler way of switching to the UK keyboard
but that seems awkward and user unfriendly - maybe I just missed the
obvious method if there is one?
--
mike c