Changeset 3f06f142

Timestamp:

08/29/2019 08:29:12 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

a5d213d0

Parents:

1b2b75a1

Message:

Add a note to gdm explaining how to set the default keyboard layout (for Sysv)

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@22067 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• gnome/platform/gdm.xml (modified) (1 diff)

gnome/platform/gdm.xml

@@ -123 +123 @@
         -g gdm -s /bin/false gdm &&
 passwd -ql gdm</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note revision="sysv">
+      <para>
+        The <application>gdm</application> login screen is managed by
+        <application>gnome-shell</application>, which relies on the
+        <command>systemd-localed</command> daemon to get the system
+        settings. Since this daemon is not present on this system, a
+        <command>sed</command> is applied in the <xref
+        linkend="gnome-shell"/> instructions to change this behavior,
+        but then <application>gdm</application> uses the system settings,
+        which default to a US <quote>qwerty</quote> keyboard layout. This may
+        be an inconvience to enter a password when the machine keyboard
+        has a different layout. One possibility is to use the screen-keyboard
+        from the accessibility menu. Another possibility is to change the
+        defaults at compile time, by creating the following file:
+      </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt; data/dconf/defaults/01-keyboard &lt;&lt; EOF
+<literal>[org/gnome/desktop/input-sources]
+sources=[('xkb','<replaceable>layout</replaceable>')]</literal>
+EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>
+        where <replaceable>layout</replaceable> should be replaced with
+        the acronym for your keyboard layout (one of the filenames in
+        <filename class="directory">/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols</filename>).
+      </para>
+    </note>
 
     <para>