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The eReuse.org Workbench is a toolset to assist with the diagnostic, benchmarking, inventory and installation of computers.
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Set a keyboard distribution #52

Closed bustawin closed 7 years ago

bustawin commented 7 years ago

DDI has the default keyboard distribution set as Spanish, and it is a real pain to use with a non-Spanish keyboard. There should be an option, to easily set the distribution: for example, when initializing the server and, by using the config.ini, propagate it to the clients.

ivilata commented 7 years ago

A note for implementation: list the entries in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols (package xkb-data, required by console-setup), pick an entry as LAYOUT, then invoke loadkeys LAYOUT.

ivilata commented 7 years ago

I'm developing a helper script in branch keyboard-layout-52, but I noticed that it cannot work currently since the helper script runs before DDI and therefore the configuration file still hasn't been retrieved from the server. However, it would work with #55 in place.

ivilata commented 7 years ago

The current version in keyboard-layout-52 asks for a keyboard layout before running DDI. If the shared directory is mounted, it reads the KEYBOARD_LAYOUT option from the config files and, if it has a value, that layout is loaded and no questions are asked.

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