changing keyboard from querty to azerty

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

Hi guys,

Finaly installed my openSUSE system.:wink:

How do I change the keyboard setting?

Is it in the file xorg.conf? Where is it located?

regards,
Jo

#2

You should be able to select the desired keyboard mapping with yast. For the console screen the mappings are located at /usr/share/kbd/keymaps. For X11 ? – I have not the slightest idea.

#3

Have a look in the Control Center (you don’t indicate which desktop
you’re using, so it may be called something else if you’re a KDE user) -
in GNOME, you can select the keyboard layout there.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator

#4

Yes its there in the directory. :slight_smile: How do I install it? Its a .map and looks like a config file.

#5

I use the KDE desktop.

#6

Then go to System settings>Regional and language>Keyboard layout and select French.

If you want only one keyboard layout, delete all the others. Otherwise, add it to your list. A flag will appear in the system tray indicating which is the current layout.

Clicking on the flag cycles through the keyboard layouts you have installed (under KDE4 a maximum of four is recommended).

Don’t change anything else or you will confuse the KDE program!