Re: gnome for debian-edu
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:
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> > 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.
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> > - 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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