Re: [orca-list] keyboard layouts

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi David
Thanks. Unfortunately, this is a Ubuntu system, and as of version 8.10  
they don't set the keyboard section in xorg.conf anymore. If I add a  
keyboard section in there, it just ignores it completely. There's an  
extra button in the gnome keyboard applet that says "apply system  
wide" but when I press this it launches a policy kit helper, and Orca  
just goes dead until I get out of that dialog. I have no idea  
whatsoever is in it. Grrrr, why is it always so much more complicated  
the more "easy" something supposedly is to use? :)



On Feb 1, 2009, at 17:11, David CSercsics wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 04:55:09PM -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> > Is there any way I can get Orca to respect a keyboard layout change?
> > E.g. if I change my layout to Dvorak, Orca still uses the US qwerty
> > layout for its commands, though it seems to respect the Dvorak layout
> > when in keyboard learn mode. However, I'm unable to get any of the
> > hotkeys to respect this change no matter how I attempt to set them.
>
> What you want to do is change the keymap in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Not  
> in the gnome preferences. I have this in mine for example:
>         option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
>
>         This is in the keyboard section of the file.
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