Localization of Fossapup64

[thinkpadfreak]

Hello.

I am afraid that remastering puppy is becoming more and more difficult.
So far I have made Japanized ISOs of tahrpup, xenialpup and bionicpup64 with remasterpup2.

tahrpup ... No problem
xenialpup ... At first boot, /root/.xinitrc is reset. It is necessary to avoid this in order to run Japanese input system.
bionicpup64 ... The same as xenialpup. And /etc/keymap is not reflected when xorg.conf is generated. A workaround is necessary.
fossapup64 ... At first boot, PuppyPin is overwritten. A workaround is necessary. And something is wrong with keyboard setting. The remastered ISO is incomplete.

After all, as for fossapup64, I have made an Japanized ISO by making use of a new adrv containing files related to Japanese, renaming the original adrv as ydrv. /etc/keymap is not reflected. So a workaround is necessary.
(Edit: To generate xorg.conf with a setting for the Japanese keyboard layout, I edited xorg-autoconf.)
Also it is necessary to avoid PuppyPin being overwritten. I got a hint from the post:
viewtopic.php?p=8371#p8371

In another thread, localization of puppy is discussed. However, as I stated above, there are changes in specifications of puppy, which make it difficult to localize puppy.

[Clarity]

Curiously, have you seen this thread's post under Multilingual Spoken Startup...

It seems to apply in a small yet way that would be of interest in your work.

[thinkpadfreak]

Curiously, have you seen this thread's post under Multilingual Spoken Startup...

It seems to apply in a small yet way that would be of interest in your work.

Thank you for the information.
I gave the .pet a try and it worked. (The translation by google is not always perfect, and I was amused by part of the translation.)

What I am aiming at is a localized ISO which, at first boot, is capable of inputting Japanese with the Japanese keyboard layout, with the desktop and menus translated into Japanese. I managed to make it, but I would like to point out that some changes in specifications of puppy make it difficult to localize puppy.

[charlie6]

Hi,
here running Fossapup64 + frugal pupsave.4fs from an external usb memory stick.
locale = fr_ BE , keyboard= belgian be (be-latin1 in /etc/keymap)

Upon each bootup, the keyboard setting "belgian" is gone and replaced by the "us" default one; even when the session is saved.
Xorg.conf is each time "reseted" to keyboard "us"; and here have to upon each bootup set the First Run settings to keyboard belgian.

I tried to put the file /root/Startup/disabled/keyboardlayoutfix into the /root/Startup/ directory
according to the post http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 780#988780 (thanks to forum member bigpup) without success.
The script keyboardlayoutfix cannot run as there are missing scripts in Fossapup94 (just run keyboardlayoutfix from a terminal, or open keyboardlayoutfix with geany to know which sripts are missing): /usr/local/apps/XkbConfigurationManager/XkbApplyNow script is missing
Digging a bit more in it, that script seems to care more about the keyboard layout than ab the locales setting.
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I also believe there is another fix than the above given thinkpadfreak's fix.

Thanks for any help, Charlie

[foxpup]

Bonjour @charlie6, using the same keyboard here
You can use the command keymap-set.

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keymap-set be

Put it in a script in /root/Startup and make it executable, you know how

[charlie6]

Bonjour @Foxpup!
SOLVED
putting the below script in /root/Startup fixes the issue!

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#!/bin/sh
keymap-set be

tons of thanks to you!
Charlie

[thinkpadfreak]

From the conversation between charlie6 and foxpup, it seems that keymap-set is not executed by default and that /etc/keymap is not reflected.

It seems to me that, up to xenialpup, /etc/keymap was reflected to set up the keyboard layout. When we remastered puppy, there was nothing special to do with regard to the keyboard layout.

I would like to know the reason why /etc/keymap is not reflected in recent puppies (bionicpup64 and fossapup64).