keyboard layout in LXDE

[mhh91]

i have installed LXDE recently and i'm very happy with it,but there's one problem,which is that i can't switch the keyboard layout to another language,which in my case is arabic,how do i solve this problem?

[cacadoo]

Hi mhh91,
Did you solve your problem?
If yes, could you please explain?
I am having the same problem. I want to be able to switch in between 2 keyboard layouts as I do in GNOME or KDE.
Any help will be highly appreciated.

[kazakore]

Anybody managed to do this? There is a Keyboard option under Administration but no way to actually tell it to change to what you have selected as far as I can tell! (F15 LXDE Live.)

[assen]

Hi,

It is a no-go: LXDE has no GUI to configure keyboard layouts, only to display the current one (yes, brain damage, indeed...). You'll need to tweak your xorg.conf in order to have different layouts and be able to switch them. It's not that hard actually, lots of info on the Internet - just counter-productive for something which calls itself "DE".

WWell,

[kazakore]

Don't need multiple layouts personally, just the one I want to use rather than forced to used the default US (surprised you're not asked at boot.)

Running the Live CD as my hard drive failed, Makes editing conf files and restarting an impossibility. Found that this command run in the terminal will change the layout though.

setxkbmap -layout gb

[DavidMcCann]

This is one of the reasons why I don't like LXDE (try Xfce instead). You need to use something like
setxkbmap -layout gb,gr
setxkbmap -option grp:sclk_toggle, grp_led:scroll

The second will enable the Scroll Lock key to toggle between keyboards and the Scroll Lock LED to show when you're using the second driver; alternatively, you could use menu or paus as a toggle. There's probably a start-up script you need to put them in, but that's beyond me.

[kazakore]

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

try Xfce instead.

Might just do that... Still undecided as to best WM/DE.