Wrong keyboard mapping on login?

[gabs5807]

Hello,
i changed my keyboard mapping as described on the planet cosmo linux page to german.
Then i changed the password of the new user using some special charactes as '-' and '_'.

Login did not work . It seems, that the keyboard uses standard (english) keymapping .
Any one else have the same experience?

[sven1999]

Also fighting with keys on the German keyboard. Does anybody know where to find the minus sign after a fresh install? It could be on the O-key, but how can I reach the subscripted letters?

[lokomoko]

Here's some of the keys I found handy before having activated German layout:

/  Shift+,
-  Fn+ö
+  Fn+i
_  Fn+j
;  Fn+k
`  FN+2
"  FN+l

but once you managed to type
setxkbmap -model planetcosmo -layout de
you won't need them anymore 

[sven1999]

Thanks for the list. I managed to write a script via SSH that sets the keyboard.

Afterwards, most keys work as expected. Some negative exceptions: The minus sign (-) should be a physical key, but it just prints ?; the - can be found as Fn-k.
Is thery anyone working on a correct keyboard? (I saw similar posts about the Italian keyboard.)

[lokomoko]

I just found, that specifying the keyboard layout permanently via
XKBMODEL="planetcosmo"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
in /etc/default/keyboard works fine for all users.

[sven1999]

What about the other 3 entries in /etc/default/keyboard ?

XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"

And which keyboard definition file is used then?

[lokomoko]

I just left them as your post shows!