FreeBSD in Italian environment

[bsdfanunix2]

I have two problem on latest FreeBSD 10.1
I want to set my keyboard layout in Italian, so I did this

vi /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">pc102</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">it</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Reboot, and..is in English
Why?
Of course hal is enabled

 

[bsdfanunix2]

The second problem, slim starts my mate session in English, I have set in .profile

EXPORT LANG="it_IT.UTF-8"

Can you help me please?

 

[tobik@]

Read https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/l10n.html

As a first step you want to setup either /etc/login.conf or your user's ~/.login.conf with the correct locale settings. Hopefully MATE should be in Italian then.

For your keyboard create /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-keyboard.conf (create the directories if they don't exist):

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "it"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
EndSection

This should ensure that Slim uses the Italian keyboard layout.