Mike
McBride
2000-11-25
1.00.00
KDE
KControl
keyboard

# Keyboard Layout

This module is used to match the physical makeup of your keyboard with the appropriate character codes.

To correctly setup your system, you should first set the top drop-down box to match the actual keyboard connected to your computer.

You should then select your primary language in the drop down box labeled "Primary Layout".

Finally, you can select alternate language mappings from the large list of languages in the box labeled "Additional layouts".

The keyboard layout functions depend on programs outside the realm of KDE, and do not work correctly on many installations. The KDE team is hard at work to correct this problem.

Many users have reported sucess using kikbd from KDE 1.1. If this functionality is needed, you can find kikbd within the kdebase packages of KDE 1.1.2.

## Section Author

This section written by Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com