KDE System Settings (7.4.2)

[Werner P. Schulz]

.. but I'd expect to be able to set my keyboard layout. Does Knoppix's start menu include a Gnome applet that sets such things?

Within Knoppix you have to use the cheatcodes →### Language/Country ###

What causes the systemsettings command to crash when it sees parameters that might be "--caption" ..

Try

systemsettings -caption %c %i

in a konsole and you'll see, why it doesn't work.

Why does Knoppix include non-working commands like this in its menu, instead of just plain "systemsettings"? It seems to me that this is the place to call it a bug. How did it ever survive so long without getting caught?

Again, Knoppix isn't a distribution like for example Debian with a huge community of maintainers and users. Knoppix is a Live Linux. It's a collection of many hundred tools an programs, collected by K Knopper. And KK never has the time to test all of this huge collection.

[ndiamond]

Within Knoppix you have to use the cheatcodes →### Language/Country ###

Yes, I used to use the keyboard=jp106 cheatcode, but didn't notice there was also an xkeyboard cheatcode. Since xkeyboard needs jp without the 106, and I didn't notice the existence of the xkeyboard cheatcode, I used to use the KDE system settings tool to set the Japanese keyboard in X. It used to work.