[SOLVED] Dual screens / keyboard layout

[SOLVED] Dual screens / keyboard layout

Arie Skliarouk skliarie at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 15:09:08 IDT 2009


Hi,

Do you mean multiseat? There is a nice howto about that:
http://netpatia.blogspot.com/2009/06/multiseat-in-ubuntu-904.html

It works good enough here with two USB keyboards and two USB mouses.

--
Arie



On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:15, Aviram Jenik <aviram at jenik.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 15:33:48 Aviram Jenik wrote:
> >
> >
> > Second question: When I connect a USB keyboard it does not have the
> correct
> > layout. I need to go to the keyboard layout and hit 'apply' for it to
> > enforce the layout on the USB keyboard as well. Since xorg.conf is now
> > pase', does anyone know how to solve this issue?
> >
>
> Answering my own question. This appears to be a known bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/376592
>
> The workaround is to modify the console-setup variables that are read
> by /usr/lib/hal/debian-setup-keyboard (the script that runs when a USB
> keyboard is plugged in).
>
> Change:
> /etc/default/console-setup
>
> and modify the XKBLAYOUT line to read:
> XKBLAYOUT="us,il"
>
>
> - Aviram
>
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