Non-latin keyboard layouts are broken

[ivan-tkatchev]

The OpenELEC system setup add-on allows the selection of a keyboard layout, and layouts like greek and russian are listed.

However, if one chooses, for example, a russian keyboard layout ('ru'), then you cannot enter latin characters at all. This makes the keyboard unusable for all practical purposes.

At system startup the init.d script runs a command that looks like

setxkbmap -display :0 ru

which is incorrect. The correct command for a russian keyboard looks like this:

setxkbmap -display :0 -layout 'ru,us' -option 'grp:alt_shift_toggle'

I've used russian as an example, but the same idea holds for keyboards for other languages, e.g., greek, hebrew, bulgarian, etc.

The right way to handle keyboard layout selection is to allow the user to select an optional second keyboard layout in the gui.

Thank you.

[sraue]

Hi,

this should work now

thanks

Stephan