[xubuntu-users] Swiss-French Keyboard in Xubuntu 12.04

Sébastien Delbarre sebastien.delbarre at gmail.com
Sat May 26 19:10:00 UTC 2012


Le 26/05/2012 20:59, pao_drop a écrit :
> Le 26.05.2012 20:44, TOM TOM a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM, pao_drop <pao_drop at bluewin.ch 
>> <mailto:pao_drop at bluewin.ch>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello!
>>     I am trying to install Xubuntu 12.04 on an old PC. Everything
>>     works fine, except that
>>     I am unable to find the Swiss-french keyboard in the keyboard
>>     layout list.
>>
>>     Since I am living in Switzerland and speaking  - and typing-
>>     french, this is a absolute MUST for me.
>>
>>     The command:
>>
>>     setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout ch -variant fr
>>
>>     works fine, albeit obviously only for the current session.
>>     This in my opinion means that the swiss-french layout IS present
>>     somewhere
>>     in the system.
>>
>>     But how do I get it permanently, not being able to use the
>>     desktop application?
>>     I have tried editing the /etc/default/keyboard file from:
>>
>>     XKBMODEL = "pc105"
>>     XKBLAYOUT = "ch"
>>     XKBVARIANT = ""
>>     XKBOPTIONS =""
>>
>>     to:
>>
>>     XKBMODEL = "pc105"
>>     XKBLAYOUT = "ch"
>>     XKBVARIANT = "fr"
>>     XKBOPTIONS =""
>>
>>     but to no avail!
>>
>>     What am I overlooking??
>>
>>     Regards, Pao
>>
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>> Hi. You have 2 options from within Settings Manager:
>>
>> 1. go to Session and Startup and add the setxkbmap command as an 
>> autostart app
>> OR
>> 2. go to Keyboard and then Layout and try to set it up from there
>>
>>
> OK! Problem solved!
> Instead of looking for the Swiss-french keyboard on either "Swiss" or 
> "French", I had to look on "German"
> To us, member of the french-speaking minority, this does not appear 
> very palatable!
> Regards,
>
> Pao
>
>
hi,

a young search on google with word : xubuntu clavier suisse

and the first link give you the correct answer ;)



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