maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post

hw9xx	2012-05-05 , 15:56
Posts: 101 \| Thanked: 62 times \| Joined on Apr 2012	#16

Originally Posted by michaelmhk

I have 3 Bluetooth keyboard, all of them can only input a-z, special character either wrong mapping or nothing inputted. Anyone can help?

Here is how to set a different keyboard layout:

Go to the store and install "nano" editor.
Enable developer mode
open Terminal
devel-su (password: rootme)
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/nokia.conf

In that file look for this section (i may have omitted some "):

Code:

# Allow configuration of external keyboards.
Section InputClass
             Identifier          external-keyboard
             MatchIsKeyboard     on
             Option              Ignore              off
EndSection

Here you have to add another line before "Endsection":

Code:

            Option               "XkbLayout"      "de"

"de" is for german keyboard layout. Replace it with the value you need.

Save the file and restart your N9

I really wish someone would enhance btinput with an option to set the layout from the UI. The above procedure looks simple but it's a bad idea to have n00bs to root stuff. Also things like nano are not exactly home territory for gui-users.

Last edited by hw9xx; 2012-05-05 at 16:04.

Quote & Reply |

The Following User Says Thank You to hw9xx For This Useful Post:
elemental