On 08.06.2015 09:24, Benoit Barthelet wrote:> I got a multiseat where my two keyboards are different, one is FR, the
> other is GB
> I upgraded to 1.14 recently and had to redo my config from 1.10, so far so
> good, I attached my various gpu, mouse, keyboards with loginctl, everything
> works fine except that both keyboards are GB (which is the default locale).
>
> So I tried to put this in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
>
> [Seat:seat1]
> xserver-config=/etc/X11/xorg.conf.seat1
>
> with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.seat1 being :
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "seat1"
> Screen "Screen1"
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard1"
> Driver "evdev"
> Option "Device"
> "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Dell_Dell_QuietKey_Keyboard-event-kbd"
> Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
> EndSection
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "evdev"
> Option "Device"
> "/dev/input/by-id/usb-DELL_DELL_USB_Laser_Mouse-event-mouse"
> Option "GrabDevice" "True"
> EndSection
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor1"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "Monitor Model"
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> EndSection
>
> With that setup it works fine, but is that the "right" way to
proceed ?
This is a more simple way, rather than "right":
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/<unique name>.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "<unique name>"
MatchUSBID "<vendor ID>:<product ID>"
Option "XkbLayout" "<country code>"
EndSection
> Shouldn't the layout of the keyboard be automatically detected ?
Does the keyboard as hardware component provides this information to the system?