Change keyboard layout to German (de)
  • hyllihylli
    PMPosts: 10
    Hi,

    first of all I wanna say, that I'm very impressed by LXLE. It's a great and fast Linux distro.

    I installed LXLE with german language on an older PC and manually installed the german language packages.

    All runs fine, only the keyboard is US.

    I can change temporarily keyboard layout to German bei "lxkeymap".

    After a reboot, the keyboard layout is again US, so u have to change every boot the keyboard layout to german.

    Where can I change the keyboard layout to german permanently?

    Thx
    Hylli
  • lxlelxle
    PMPosts: 2,656
    try launching lxkeymap as root.

    menu>run>lxkeymap

    check run as root.
  • hyllihylli
    PMPosts: 10
    OK, I'll test it.

    Hylli
  • hyllihylli
    PMPosts: 10
    Hi,

    didn't work for me, but my sister (owner of the PC and 1st week on linux!!!) found a solution.

    1. Right click on panel
    2. Add/Remove panel items
    3. Add -> Keyboard layout handler
    4. Right click on US flag -> Keyboard layout handler settings
    5. Uncheck "Keep system layouts"
    6. Keyboard layouts -> Add
    7. Add keyboard layout "de" for Germany
    8. Moved up keyboard layout "de" in the list of keyboard layouts
    9. Success!!!

    Btw: Will it be possible to upgrade directly from LXLE 12.04.4 to 14.04.x?

    Hylli
    Thanked by 3lxle Zaka pemartins
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