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Does this new setting survive a reboot? Does the new +</I>>>><i> mapping work at the system level (i.e. is the layout respected in GDM)? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yep, the setting survives a reboot for the user that changed it, but +</I>><i> as I said above it does not change GDM settings. I did not try to do it +</I>><i> with system tools, just user preferences. +</I>><i> And keymap is OK in virtual consoles. +</I>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Do you have a /etc/vconsole.conf file? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Nop, I have not. I think system settings were in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> OK, so I don't really understand why it's broken. I think it's maybe a +</I>>><i> regression in that X is no longer inheriting settings from the console, +</I>>><i> but I think longer term this is a valid thing (maybe there will not be a +</I>>><i> console to inherit from in the future?) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> So, it seems that systemd-localed will write an Xorg snippet into +</I>>><i> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf when the keyboard is set. Thus +</I>>><i> your setting of it via the Gnome System Settings will have written this +</I>>><i> file (can you confirm it exists?) and it will remain there for the +</I>>><i> remaining boots. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This file does not exist in my box, I just used user prefs to change +</I>><i> the map, not sytem ones. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Longer term, we need to make sure the installer runs this daemon for +</I>>><i> fresh installs. And perhaps we should run it on upgrade automatically +</I>>><i> too to ensure it's written as needed. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I will try to write an /etc/vconsole.conf and see if it works. +</I>><i> Perhaps the fix is just to write it from /etc/syscofig/keyboard... +</I>><i> +</I> +This file did not work for GDM. +So i checked systemd-localed, it was not started and started it manually, +and then copied my settings to system in gnome settings tool. +That made the file in xorg.conf.d appear, and GDM was OK. + +Perhaps udev/dbus do not talk to X server anymore about keyboard layout. +My settiongs in xorg.conf were: +Section "InputDevice" + Identifier "keyboard" + Driver "evdev" +# Option "XkbLayout" "es" +# Option "XkbModel" "pc105" +# Option "XkbOptions" "" +EndSection + +File generated by localed is: + +# Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file +# manually too freely. +Section "InputClass" + Identifier "system-keyboard" + MatchIsKeyboard "on" + Option "XkbLayout" "es" +EndSection + +-- +J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Winter is coming... + + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="016627.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="016635.html">[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#16628">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#16628">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#16628">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#16628">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |