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I reinstalled my Raspberry Pi with the latest Raspbian wheezy (2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian) and modified the console keyboard with raspi-config to match my AZERTY setup. The layout is now OK on the console.

It is still QWERTY on the GUI, though. I tried to find the relevant entry in the menus but I just found how to set speed, sensitivity, etc. - but not the localization.

What is the proper way to set up and AZERTY keyboard on the GUI?

Thanks!

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My Pi is running headless, so I can't test this, but first have a look at this page. Then try if you can set the keymap from a terminal:

setxkbmap fr

This should switch to french azerty layout. You can put this command into your ~/.xinitrc if it works. There are also many other keyboard layouts available (like be for Belgian azerty).

Edit: If you want to make this permanent, you need to make sure the ~/.xinitrc still starts the default WM and desktop. So put these lines into your ~/.xinitrc, if it does not exist yet:

setxkbmap fr
. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

This will run the default xinit script after setting up the keyboard layout.

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  • Does this permanently work or is it just temporary? In the case of the latter, how could we make it permanent?
    – Matthew Moisen
    Commented Jun 25, 2013 at 17:09
  • If you add it to your ~/.xinitrc, you can make it permanent.
    – Arne
    Commented Jun 25, 2013 at 19:08
  • Added another paragraph to my answer, to clarify.
    – Arne
    Commented Jun 25, 2013 at 19:10

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