Bug#692459: debian installer should show a keyboard layout indicator in text fields

[Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com>]

2012/11/6 Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>:
> Mmm...
>
> A visible indication on the screen would be hackish at best. Another way
> would be to use the scroll lock LED. Are you using the graphical or the
> textual installer?  In the latter case, my patch to make the kernel let
> userspace choose LEDs for modifiers at will has not yet been integrated,
> it'll not be fixable for Wheezy.
>
> Samuel

gnome screensaver already had it in lock screen dialogue (but it
seemed to be gone in 3.6). Malayalam is not supported in text mode, so
at least for Malayalam I'm happy with layout indicator in graphical
mode.

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