On 03/09/2019 20:21, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > On September 3, 2019 11:45:06 AM CDT, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev > <blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: >> On 02/09/2019 23:05, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm coming back to "how to fix gdm". What we have now is a hack, that >> allows >>> setting the keyboard layout for gdm at compile time, but prevents >> being able >>> to set it and other properties of gdm in gnome-control-center (no >> "login >>> screen" button). >>> >>> Gnome-shell, gnome-control-center, and gnome-setting-daemons insist >> on having >>> the localed daemon to do the job, so it might be a better idea to >> install it. >>> >>> localed is a small daemon, and there is not much to add (to port from >> the >>> systemd source, exactly) to elogind to have this daemon on our >> system. >> >> >> I've made a patch and uploaded it to >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~pierre/elogind-241.3-add_localed-2.patch >> >> Apply it to elogind-241.3. Build elogind with instructions as in the >> book. >> >> Then (re)build gnome-shell without the "sed", and gdm without the >> "cat", >> otherwise as per the book instructions. >> >> You may have to ensure that dbus is running (it was on my machine), >> then issue: >> localectl set-x11-keymap fr >> (this will create or amend /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf) >> >> Obviously, you have to change the "fr" part to something else for >> another >> keyboard layout, (for example gb or de) >> >> then restart in runlevel 5: >> - the keyboard in gdm is "fr" >> - there is a "login screen" in gnome settings "region and language", >> and it >> can be clicked (it asks then for "root" password), and you can change >> the >> login screen settings (not only the keyboard). >> >> The patch is not finished yet, because it does not install the man >> pages for >> localectl and localed. But the executables seem to be ok. >> >> I wonder whether this should be sent to upstream elogind, or made as an >> independent project. >> >> Actually, I wonder whether it couldn't be good to group eudev, elogind, >> and >> localed into one package (datetimed could be useful too). But I do not >> know of >> a proper place to discuss that... I may start at elogind. >> > > > Nice! That would be the right people to bring it to. Realistically, I'd like > to see systemd folks take it all back and see build of individual components > in the original tree, but suppose that's a dream for now. Honestly, I don't > know that anybody has approached them with it. >
Actually, this is very easy to break systemd into individual components if you accept to have a systemd daemon as PID 1. There are a lot of places where this daemon is accessed through dbus (I had to remove a couple of such calls in localed, and elogind has to do much more to get rid of them, because just removing them removes too much functionality). So I think any request to have standalone daemons is doomed to failure... BTW, I haven't asked explicitly, but would it be possible that somebody else test this patch? Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
