Re: Bug#288701: Selected keymap not used for gdm, gnome or kde

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:13:50PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Holger Levsen (debian@layer-acht.org):
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 18:59, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > 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).
> > 
> > apt-get install localization-config && update-locale-config
> > 
> > right ? (will test later... need breakfast first :)
> 
> No. Running l-c is already done in d-i.....but indeed, l-c does not
> choose the X keyboard based on the console keyboard chosen. So, in
> this bug report, the user who choosed a Dvorak keyboard just ends up
> with a US one....even if (s)he uses localization-config.

Actually, i think that localization-config was fixed to preseed the value, but
mark it as unseen, thus allowing the user to override it. Not ideal, but the
best that can be done, since i hear that there is no way to exactly map the
console keyboards to X keyboards.

The above fix maybe needed a fix in the debconf script used to set the values,
to allow for marking them as unread.

Friendly,

Sven Luther