Keyboard layout in Sage appliance

asked 2012-01-18 05:34:20 +0100

Green diod
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updated 2012-01-21 16:45:54 +0100

Hi all,

I'm currently testing Sagemath on a Windows 7 box via sage appliance (4.7.2). I wanted to try the interactive shell out but it is not usable as my host keyboard layout is fr and the guest fedora box for sage uses en.

A quick search pointed me to the system-config-keyboard command but too bad, it is not shipped with sage appliance 4.7.2. Any other hint ?

Final solution (see below): change layout via sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYTABLE="fr-latin1"
MODEL="pc105+inet"
LAYOUT="fr"

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answered 2012-01-18 15:24:48 +0100

Volker Braun
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If you use your host OS browser to connect to the virtual machine then you'll be using your host keyboard settings. This is the preferred method.

To change the keyboard in the textmode console of the guest vm, drop to a shell and use the command

sudo loadkeys azerty

Note that system-config-keyboard is for configuring the keyboard in X, not for text mode.

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Hi,

Thanks for theses infos.

Your hint works but is it possible to change the guest layout since booting up? I mean, I'm still stuck with the wrong layout until I can log in and use the history to load the good layout back.

Green diod ( 2012-01-19 13:39:54 +0100 )edit

You can make it permanent by editing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Volker Braun ( 2012-01-20 12:49:28 +0100 )edit

That's it, I updated my original question

Green diod ( 2012-01-21 15:40:40 +0100 )edit

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answered 2013-09-24 17:53:02 +0100

Nicolas M Thiéry
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Here are some instructions we used last fall during a Sage workshop in a French speaking country; they might be outdated since then ...

Switch to the text console:

CTRL-ALT-F1

login: sage
password: sage

Switch to user gui (might not be needed anymore)::

sudo su - gui

Edit the xinitrc file::

nano .xinitrc

Add the following line, just before the last line that starts google-chrome::

setxkbmap fr

Reboot:

reboot

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answered 2012-08-16 05:35:33 +0100

doromi
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updated 2012-08-16 05:37:46 +0100

Hi,

I HAVE edited /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and it nicely shows

KEYTABLE="de-latin1"
MODEL="pc105+inet"
LAYOUT="de"

I have restarted everything now (for several times... just to be sure), and on the shell the keyboard layout IS German, but in the Sage appliance it still is US... What else can I do / where else can I change something to get that German keytable working ?

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