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From: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: keyboard layout and system locale
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:01:15 +0100
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To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
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Hello Catonano

Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:

> Can I set up the keyboard layout and my system locale (Italian) for my Gnome desktop in my conf.scm file ?
>
> Otherwise I have to click around in every throaway virtual machine I create in order to be able to use the desktop environment
>
> Thanks

To set the keyboard layout in my config.scm I replaced %desktop-services
with this:

(modify-services %desktop-services
 (slim-service-type config =>
                    (slim-configuration
                     (inherit config)
                     (startx (xorg-start-command
                              #:configuration-file
                              (xorg-configuration-file
                               ;; Setup X to use a swiss german keyboard layout.
                               #:extra-config
                               '("Section \"InputClass\"
        Identifier \"keyboard-all\"
        Option \"XkbLayout\" \"ch\" ; <~ replace \"ch\" with \"it\"
        MatchIsKeyboard \"on\"
EndSection")))))))

This sets the default keyboard layout of X to ch.  All you have to do is
replace the \"ch\" with \"it\".  It has the added benefit of setting the
keyboard layout in SLIM so that you do not have to worry about special
characters in your login password.

HTH

Diego