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    • T
      Taspharel
      last edited by

      Hi.

      Maybe this is a thing and I just havent found it yet:

      Is there an easy way to change the keyboard layout of the FOG Bootmenues?

      I can work around the US keyboard layout of course, but it would be a great convenience πŸ™‚

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott
        last edited by

        You would have to build your own ipxe binaries unfortunately. Keymapping as done at compile time.

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        • george1421G
          george1421 Moderator
          last edited by

          I did have instructions a while ago for recompiling the ipxe binaries for someone who wanted the FOG iPXE menu using the french keyboard.

          @Taspharel what keyboard language do you require?

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          • x23piracyX
            x23piracy @george1421
            last edited by x23piracy

            @george1421 @tom-elliott isn’t there a way to compile multi lingual and let the system detect what it is? Sorry for the naive question πŸ˜„ Or at least multi lingual and a switch in fog settings?

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            • Tom ElliottT
              Tom Elliott @x23piracy
              last edited by

              @x23piracy No. It would make the binaries very large. PXE has a standard the file sizes must remain at max.

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              • george1421G
                george1421 Moderator @x23piracy
                last edited by

                @x23piracy This would be a slippery slope to go down. The keyboard settings need to be included when the iPXE binaries are compiled. Technically (not offering anything here) the developers could make a set of iPXE binaries available for download on the FOGProject web site for the 3 primary keyboard languages (english, european, cyrillic) but then what do you do if someone needs japanese or cn-taiwan? That is the slippery slope I talked about. Adding unique ipxe keyboards an easy task, but keeping up with the iPXE revisions is a bit more difficult.

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                • x23piracyX
                  x23piracy
                  last edited by x23piracy

                  ok understood, i really can stick with qwerty πŸ˜„ even when i am a german and we need qwertz πŸ˜‰ My psws don’t use z, y, ß, Γ€, ΓΆ and or ΓΌ.

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                    Sebastian Roth Moderator
                    last edited by Sebastian Roth

                    @Tom-Elliott Probably another reason why we should build iPXE at install time instead of providing the binaries! Will look into this at some point…

                    Edit: Ok, just created a new topic on this and moved posts so we don’t take over this one. Follow this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10858/compile-ipxe-on-install

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                      Taspharel
                      last edited by

                      I would need the german keyboard layout for our setup.

                      But I get that its difficult within the current system, thanks for clearing that up πŸ™‚

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                      • x23piracyX
                        x23piracy @Taspharel
                        last edited by

                        @taspharel it was good that you started that discussion and it sounds like that we maybe can expect that feature in the future. Thank you.

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