Re: keyboard layout and system locale

[Catonano]

2018-03-17 16:01 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <address@hidden>:

Hello Catonano

Catonano <address@hidden> 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\"

Ok, the semicolon is illegal Xorg syntax and made the server crash !!

Now something else happens

Slim shows up properly, but after the login, the login command fails

Here's a picture
https://imgur.com/a/Ul1Ie