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

Mon Jun 18 23:47:12 CEST 2012

On 06/18/2012 11:28 PM, JA Magallón wrote:
+> 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...
+>
+
+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...
+
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