Bug#344871: kdm: changing Language option breaks keyboard input
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 00:51, Itai Seggev wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:3.4.3-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: l10n
>
> If I keep the Language option in kdmrc on the default en_US, then the
> greeter will happily accept both Hebrew and Enlgish input, even though
> all the menu items are in Englsih. If, however, I change the option to
> he_IL or he_IL.UTF-8, then it stops accept Hebrew input. If I try
> typing hebrew in a text field, all I get are empty boxes. If I try
> activating a menu using Alt-key, it fails. This happens on both my x86
> desktop and my powerbook. This is new to 3.4 (I had no problem with
> Hebrew kdm in 3.3 or earlier).
KDM has 'issues' reading /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc configuration files from older
versions of kdm, so just to make sure that your problem isn't in this
category, it would be good to purge and reinstall KDM 3.4 (you can of
course backup the old kdmrc first). Also, if you have any systems/chroots
where you're feeling daring, could you see if the problem occurs using KDM
3.5 from experimental?
I've tried to reproduce the problem using the KDE 3.5 chroot I'm running
over the holidays. The Alt key does seem to be messed up, but I can type
the (non-Hebrew) username and password and log in. Note that I installed
kde-i18n-he, ran dpkg-reconfigure locales to add the Hebrew locales, and
then used the KDE Control Centre's kdm configuration module to set the
language to Hebrew. If you're doing something different, let me know. I'll
be able to try again on a KDE 3.4 system in a week or so.
Thanks,
Christopher Martin
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