Keyboard layouts

kosson · 2016-04-09 10:40:28

Dear friends,
I have been starting using Bunsenlabs and I love it for the fast environment it offers on a very old machine (Asus laptop). The only problem I cannot find resolution is the keyboard layout. I have been looked to any trace on the net in help for a resolution but I'm stuck and I need your help. Nothing works. The issue is after installing Romanian locale and ibus, the switch brings the us keyboard layout. I have added just for the fun if it the Italian layout and that one is switch correctly. It seems something is very wrong with the Romanian language pack as the system sees it as us?!

In the autostart I've ended up with
setxkbmap -layout us,ro -variant -option grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp &

after many trials. Nothing works and I believe there is something wrong with the Romanian language pack?!

Dear Bunsen users, please try and install the Romanian lang pack and see if you can switch on that. Let me know.

Maybe it would be a great asset to just have a very well written tutorial concerning these aspects. The info is so spread across many resources on the net.

Thank you.

ohnonot · 2016-04-09 11:52:13

according to this i used

dpkg-reconfigure locales

to add ro_RO.UTF-8 to my locales.

using

setxkbmap ro

(or the complete line you provided above) does not throw any errors, however i have the feeling that the keyboard layout is just standard US english now.

xaos52 · 2016-04-09 13:38:58

@OP,
Works for me!

Please note that you have to change both your keyboard layout and your default language,
and reboot, or at least logout/login of your X session for the changes to take effect.

Screenshot as proof:

kosson · 2016-04-11 19:43:56

I haven't sorted it out the issue yet.
I have installed the the Romanian locales and yes, I have got my system into Romanian. But the problem is strictly related to the keyboard layout. I cannot write documents with Romanian char set. In my desperation I have fired up a tasksel and installed XFCE. From that shell I was able to set the input in Romanian. But I do love Bunsen (OpenBox) elegance because I loved Chrunchbang.

On short, there is no solution setting the charset in order to write docs in my own language.

Let me know how to avail...

Sector11 · 2016-04-11 20:08:01

Is this what you used for the keyboard?

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

kosson · 2016-04-12 07:50:38

Well, I have configured prior the keyboard-configuration. From what I gathered, the Romanian keyboard is not mapped to the Romanian chars, somehow is mapped to the us char set (maybe this is a bug?). That is rather strange and I'm really in the fog here.

See some screens here: http://imgur.com/a/hWn9p

P.S.

By accident I tried combo AltGr with some keys and having been switched already to my language I was able to type a few special chars specific to my lang. But they are off from the keys I'm used to on a US keyboard. So, I will attach a pic with the physical keyboard (which is Italian, by the way) and maybe I will find an answer. Hmmmmm.. now I would really love a special char chart to relearn the positions... Anyway, it is rather awkward now to action the special chars using AltGr. Hmmm, in XFCE is easy as pie... I should look closely to the other settings ans see how to mimic then to Openbox.

I wonder if I should force declaring the keyboard as a 105pc? Maybe I get rid of the mapping issues?
Any apps to view the char maps in

MOD Edit: Please use thumbnails on the forum - ( Thumbnail for Forums (1) )

Last edited by Sector11 (2016-04-12 13:09:02)

Sector11 · 2016-04-12 13:05:06

But they are off from the keys I'm used to on a US keyboard. So, I will attach a pic with the physical keyboard (which is Italian, by the way) and maybe I will find an answer.

OH MY! You are trying to use a Romanian layout on and Italian keyboard when you are familiar with a US layout.

You may need to do what I did for my "latam" (Latin America) keyboard. Since it doesn't show "everything" I made a text file, typing one key at a time, and printed it out:

1 - normal letters
2 - [Alt Gr] + lower case letter
3 - [Alt Gr] + [Cap Locks on] + letter
4 - [Alt Gr] + ^ + letter
5 - [Alt Gr] + [Shift] + letter

                               NOT  Pad!
1  2 3 4 5     1  2 3 4 5     1  2 3 4 5
=  =======     =  =======     =  =======
a  æ Æ â Æ     ñ  ~ ~         |  ¬
b  ” ”   ’     o  Ø Ø ô Ø     1  |   ¹ ¡
c  ¢ ¢ ĉ ©     p  Þ Þ   Þ     2  @   ² ⅛
d  ð Ð   Ð     q  @ @   Ω     3  ·   ³ £
e  € € ê ¢     r  ¶ ¶   ®     4  ~   ⁴ $
f  đ Đ   ª     s  ß ß ŝ §     5  ½   ⁵ ⅜
g  ŋ Ŋ ĝ Ŋ     t  Ŧ Ŧ   Ŧ     6  ¬   ⁶ ⅝
h  ħ Ħ ĥ Ħ     u  ↓ ↓ û ↑     7  {   ⁷ ⅞
i  → → î ı     v  “ “   ‘     8  [   ⁸ ™
j  j J ĵ J     w  Ł Ł ŵ Ł     9  ]   ⁹ ±
k  ĸ ĸ   &     x  » »   >     0  }   ⁰ °
l  Ł Ł   Ł     y  ← ← ŷ ¥     '  \   \ ¿
m        º     z  « « ẑ <     ¿  ¸
n  N N   N

Accents:

[Alt Gr] + ^ + letters: â ê î ô û ŷ - ĉ ĝ ĵ ŝ ŵ ẑ 
[Alt Gr] + ` + letters: à è ì ò ù ỳ - ǹ ẁ
[Alt Gr] + ´ + letters: á é í ó ú ý - ć ǵ ḱ ḿ ń ṕ ŕ ś ẃ

Use a mono font that has capabilities to do all the characters you need. I used: DejaVu Sans Mono

EDIT: In fact I am missing some accents:

[Alt Gr] + ¨ + letters:  ä ë ï ö ü ÿ - ẅ ẗ ḧ ẍ

Last edited by Sector11 (2016-04-12 13:16:49)

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