Re: Bug#230832: xserver-xfree86: XkbVariant was fi, kb not working in X
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
[...]
> As soon as the user has a non US keyboard, (s)he configured it
> properly in the kbd-chooser part of d-i, but afterwards, when
> installing X (often through the "desktop" task of tasksel), the
> keyboard still used a "us" layout.
>
> This was mostly due to the kbd layout question being medium priority
> in X packages, so it was skipped during the install.
>
> We (d-i team) had tons of reports with users not understanding why
> they has a US layout in X while they did choose another layout during
> the install.
>
> localization-config tries to circumvent this by installing "safe"
> defaults based on the localisation environment. So, in Tapio's case,
> as the install was probably done in Finnish, the X keyboard layout was
> set to "fi".
The problem is that XkbVariant was set instead of XkbLayout.
Denis
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