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



Hello,

Praveen A, le Fri 09 Nov 2012 18:12:25 +0530, a écrit :
> 2012/11/6 Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

Mmm, just to make sure: this is already implemented in the graphical
d-i, I've just tested with beta4, the scroll lock LED does light when
switched to the non-latin layout.  Is it also forking for you, or is
there still a bug in that regard?  (support in textmode will come with
my kernel patch).

Samuel


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