Bug#288701: Selected keymap not used for gdm, gnome or kde
Quoting Irrevenant (irrevenant@netspace.net.au):
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: Debian Sarge RC2 - 17-Dec-2004
>
> I installed Debian Sarge from CDs 1-3 of Debian Sarge RC2 -
> 17-Dec-2004. It asked me for my desired keymap up front and I selected
> it (dvorak). It was used throughout the installer, but once the system
> was installed, I was thrown to a gdm login screen that used QWERTY.
> When I logged into Gnome and KDE, they too defaulted to QWERTY.
>
> Apologies if this is the incorrect package to report this under.
There is no real solution to this. Console and X keymaps are currently
disconnected. A workaround is bringed by the localization-config
package which is run at the end of the install and preseeds the X
settings with defaults related to the chosen locale (roughly
language+country combination).
In the case you described, I guess you used the English language, then
Australia as country (guess based on your domain name), so the keymap
ended up to be a US keyboard.
The console-data and X package maintainers are both planning some work
on such issues, AFAIK, but this is complicated enough for being
delayed after sarge release.
Given that this is a very well known problem, we should maybe document
this in the install manual, if not already done. Frans?
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