[Solved!] Howto Install European Keyboard in XFCE

[Erik]

Today I installed Mageia's XFCE desktop on an older computer. All went smoothly and everything works (as expected ). On my other computer I have Mageia's Plasma. On this computer I can choose the European keyboard "EurKey" via the keyboard settings under "Any Language", and "Layout". I prefer this keyboard map to "US International", because it is more consistent. Using XFCE however I can only choose a language and one of its variants. The European keyboard on the basis of the US keyboard is not one of them.

I can install "eurkey" with this command:

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setxkbmap eu

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but then I lose my other keyboards: Old Greek and Biblical Hebrew. The next time I start my computer, I get my orignal keyboards back (US international, Greek, Hebrew), but the European keyboard is not there. I am accustomed to the European keyboard and I prefer it on my refurbished old computer too, together wit the other two. How do I achieve this?

Greetings

Erik Jan

[Erik]

This afternoon I spent experimenting with my new installation of Mageia 7 XFCE. I found the XFCE setting for the keyboard maps that have defined, in:

~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/keyboard-layout.xml

I found the keyboard maps that I had defined:

<property name="XkbLayout" type="string" value="us,gr,il"/>
<property name="XkbVariant" type="string" value="intl,polytonic,biblical"/>

After some experimenting I found that I can add the European keyboard map by these changes:

<property name="XkbLayout" type="string" value="eu,us,gr,il"/>
<property name="XkbVariant" type="string" value=",intl,polytonic,biblical"/>

Now the keyboard settings are the same in all my computers.

Greetings to all readers and users of this wonderful Mageia distribution.

Erik Jan