My 500+ with the Nordic keyboard arrived, after a long time on a wait list. It's an absolutely glorious system with beautiful, comfortable key caps and switches, etc. Even the cover over the GPIO pins is a nice touch, for when they are not in use. Near perfection as far as I can tell. I've wanted a system <i>just</i> like that for ages!
On the software side, the OS specifically, I did run into one quirk which can be difficult for novices. It is that the graphical menus seem unable to switch the key mapping away from the UK layout no matter what I tried. Eventually I found old notes which led me to tweak ~/.config/labwc/environment to contain this:
I think that is a known bug, but if not then please add it to the ticketing system as it can throw sand in the gears of beginners.
On the software side, the OS specifically, I did run into one quirk which can be difficult for novices. It is that the graphical menus seem unable to switch the key mapping away from the UK layout no matter what I tried. Eventually I found old notes which led me to tweak ~/.config/labwc/environment to contain this:
Code:
$ cat ~/.config/labwc/environment XKB_DEFAULT_MODEL=pc105XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=fi,usXKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=,Statistics: Posted by tpyo kingg — Wed Dec 10, 2025 1:34 pm