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Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:32 am
by Bartimaeus
Hi Guys,

For the next updates of MX Linux, would it be possible to add LUXEMBOURG and the keyboard layout "Français-Suisse" ?

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Thanks Guys. ;)

Best regards from Luxembourg.


BARTIMAEUS

Re: Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:49 am
by Eadwine Rose
Moved to translations forum.

Re: Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 12:42 pm
by dolphin_oracle
Bartimaeus wrote: Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:32 am Hi Guys,

For the next updates of MX Linux, would it be possible to add LUXEMBOURG and the keyboard layout "Français-Suisse" ?

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Thanks Guys. ;)

Best regards from Luxembourg.


BARTIMAEUS
that's potentially pretty tricky. what is the keyboard layout code for such a thing

(possibly contained in /etc/default/keyboard if you've set it up).

I believe there is french-switzerland setup. is that it?

Re: Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 3:24 pm
by baldyeti
here's the preview of the "French (Switzerland)" layout in KDE MX23/bookworm

not sure which tool to use under XFCE (or setxkbmap code) but this is included already

Re: Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 4:57 pm
by baldyeti
from the command line, could you try the following

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setxkbmap ch,fr

Re: Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 6:42 pm
by fehlix
Bartimaeus wrote: Thu Aug 28, 2025 9:32 am Hi Guys,

For the next updates of MX Linux, would it be possible to add LUXEMBOURG and the keyboard layout "Français-Suisse" ?

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It's already included. You need to look with keyboard layout settings for "German" layouts, which this "variant" is based on.
Layout: German(Switzerland)
Variant: French(Switzerland):
For LiveUSB keyboard boot parameter would be kbd=ch kbvar=fr

Re: Request to MX Linux Admins please ?

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 7:00 pm
by fehlix
baldyeti wrote: Thu Aug 28, 2025 4:57 pm from the command line, could you try the following

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setxkbmap ch,fr
the command would be with a space between layout code and variant code:

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setxkbmap ch  fr
or with options displayed:

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setxkbmap -layout ch -variant fr
otherwise the command "setxkbmap ch,fr" would set two layouts for "German(Switzerland)" and for "French".