On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 11:31:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I would have thought that you would put XKBLAYOUT="fr,latam" > in your /etc/default/keyboard which gives you deadkeys by default. > That's for X itself (I know nothing about LXDE) but also the VCs. > > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > will update the VC keyboards. I always run > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup > at the same time because I sometimes forget which configures what. > > HOWEVER, only run those two commands when X isn't running. > At all. Not in a VC that you reached with Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6]. > If X is running, all sorts of weirdnesses result. > This might be the answer to your other posting. > > Cheers, > David. >
Thank you very much for this suggestion. They keyboard layouts are now working swimmingly from the bash shell. Now the problem is getting them to work in LXDE when I start X Server. I will consult LXDE's documentation. Regards, Levi
