[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing

Mon Jun 18 23:28:03 CEST 2012

Hi....
+
+Sorry for the delay, I've been busy with end-of-term festivals in
+my children' schools ;)...
+
+>>
+>>> - keyboard layout under Gnome got reset to English (from Spanish).
+>>> Changed manually under
+>>>    system settings and fine again.
+>>
+
+One addtional problem is that GDM starts with english keyboard which
+is a problem for passwords with non alpha-num chars... :).
+
+>> Interesting. Does this new setting survive a reboot? Does the new
+>> mapping work at the system level (i.e. is the layout respected in GDM)?
+
+Yep, the setting survives a reboot for the user that changed it, but
+as I said above it does not change GDM settings. I did not try to do it
+with system tools, just user preferences.
+And keymap is OK in virtual consoles.
+
+>>
+>> Do you have a /etc/vconsole.conf file?
+
+Nop, I have not. I think system settings were in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard.
+
+>
+> OK, so I don't really understand why it's broken. I think it's maybe a
+> regression in that X is no longer inheriting settings from the console,
+> but I think longer term this is a valid thing (maybe there will not be a
+> console to inherit from in the future?)
+>
+> So, it seems that systemd-localed will write an Xorg snippet into
+> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf when the keyboard is set. Thus
+> your setting of it via the Gnome System Settings will have written this
+> file (can you confirm it exists?) and it will remain there for the
+> remaining boots.
+
+This file does not exist in my box, I just used user prefs to change
+the map, not sytem ones.
+
+>
+> Longer term, we need to make sure the installer runs this daemon for
+> fresh installs. And perhaps we should run it on upgrade automatically
+> too to ensure it's written as needed.
+>
+
+I will try to write an /etc/vconsole.conf and see if it works.
+Perhaps the fix is just to write it from /etc/syscofig/keyboard...
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
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