2018-03-17 16:01 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>:

> 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.
>
>

Thank you Diego !

Would you mind to share the whole file ?

I tried to copy and paste your contribution but I messed it up, I can't
makkke it workk and I didn't keep the previous version :-/