Description of problem: I'm not able to setup the German keyboard layout via the System > Administration > Keyboard command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select System > Administration > Keyboard. 2. Enter the root password. 3. Nothing happens, no dialog appears which allows me to change the keyboard layout. Actual results: Keyboard layout is still set up for the 'us' layout. Expected results: Dialog to change the keyboard layout from 'us' to 'de'. Additional info:
Works for me. Do you have networking up to install the dictionaries? What if you run system-config-keyboard from a shell?
There seems to be the same problem here (on x86_64): during installation I selected "German, nodeadkeys" -- it was ignored. System -> preferences -> hardware -> Keyboard -> Layouts is set to German but that doesn't help. System -> administration -> Keyboard used to help sometimes (only until reboot) but since some update I don't have "keyboard" in Administration any more. On the shell system-config-keyboard opens the window needed. It is already set to "German (latin1 w/ no deadkeys)". Klicking OK solves the problem (until reboot) and gives ######################### [root@Linux1 ~]# system-config-keyboard Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 226, in _okClicked return self.apply(None, False) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 117, in apply keyboardBackend.modifyXconfig(fullname, layout, model, variant, options) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_backend.py", line 34, in modifyXconfig keyboard = xf86config.getCoreKeyboard(xconfig) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 177, in getCoreKeyboard raise XF86SectionMissing("No CoreKeyboard InputDevice found in the layout") xf86config.XF86SectionMissing ################################# in the shell. Additional information: I boot into runlevel 3. Before I startx, the layout is fine. I bypassed the problem by adding a Section "InputDevice" to the xorg.conf
Comment #2 indicates that this is a duplicate of Bug 437290.
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