xterm changed from german to english

Erich Dollansky oceanare@pacific.net.sg
Wed Sep 12 16:17:00 GMT 2007


Hi,

Holger Krull wrote:
> Sebastian Posch schrieb:
>> I have a german WindowsXP installation with a german keyboard. Since
>> yesterday all of a sudden I get only english input in xterm. y is z, -
>> is / ...
>>
>> I still have german input in bash and DOS prompt, so I tried restarting
>> the X server and reinstalling xterm, but it didn't help.
>>
>> I'd be interested in what could've been causing this.
> 
> It could be windows xp switching the keyboard for Xwin, i have this annoying behaviour with skype. I have to manually select german. (Eingabegebietsschema)
> 
the other option could be:

setxkbmap -layout de

Erich

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