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On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:30:05PM +0100, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:55:43PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > On 20-03-2005 10:20, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> ...
> > > But before trying to build the first gnome-based debian-edu-cd I have
> > > one big problem:
> > > bug #296434 - http://bugs.debian.org/296434
> > > I set up Norwegian (I've tried with danish as well), and in the
> > > console and in gdm everything seems to be set up correctly. but when
> > > gnome starts, I get US keyboard. This seems to have been a known bug in
> > > Fedora Core around the time they switched from XFree86 packages to
> > > X.org packages, but Debian has not yet switched. I've tried with
> > > Ubuntu, and there things works.
> ...
> > > - SHould this bug be other priority than normal - I mean this bug is
> > > grave, as it prevents us from having a preconfigured environment. I
> > > would not like to tell hundreds of users to use
> > > "gnome-keyboard-properties" to set up their keyboard even if X and
> > > keyboard has been set up correctly. I think It should be
> > > grave - makes the package in question unusable or mostly so (maybe
> > > not)
> > > or
> > > important - a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a
> > > package, without rendering it completely unusable to
> > > everyone. (Applies to everyone that dont us US-keyboard)
> > >
> > > I Think it's an important bug.
> >
> > I agree it is _very_ annoying (and thanks for pointing me to the Redhat
> > ressources that helped me figure out what I thought was a local problem
> > with my own setup!) but gconf settings _are_ changeable (as Loïc also
> > seems to write in his response), it just does not rely on either Xfree86
> > or libc settings, and is not controllable through debconf.
> >
> > Try the following command (in a single line):
> >
> > # gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> > xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type string --set
> > /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/layouts dk
>
> Then I got something like (freely translated)
> Error during activation of XKB-config
> .....
> please include something like
> - printout of xprop -root | grep XKB
> - printout of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
>
> But since the activation of XKB-config fail - I now have a working
> keyboard :)
>
> > If the above command works, I suggest keeping bug #296434 open but
> > priority normal or lower, and instead file a wishlist bugreport against
> > localization-config to setup gconf2 similarly.
>
> It should not be necesarry to reconfigure the keyboard for gnome, since
> it works perfectly in gdm. It should be possible to reprogram the
> keyboard but _not_ necesarry :(
>
> I suggest we continue this discussion on
> debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org
>
>
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> Finn-Arne Johansen
> faj@bzz.no
> http://bzz.no/
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