On 26/08/2019 19:42, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > > >> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 5:05 AM >> From: "Pierre Labastie via blfs-support" >> <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> >> To: blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org >> Cc: "Pierre Labastie" <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr> >> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] gdm: how to use a non us keyboard? >> >> Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: >>> On 8/26/19 10:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> On 8/26/19 1:48 AM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: >>>> >>>>> They found that the issue is with gnome-shell which forces the use >>>>> of systemd. >>>>> >>>>> They created a patch back in January of this year, which may well be >>>>> able to be modified for lfs/blfs purposes: >>>>> >>>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235009 >>>> >>>> Pierre, try rebuilding gnome shell with: >>>> >>>> sed -i '/isGreeter/,+2 d' js/ui/status/keyboard.js >>>> >>>> alternatively: >>>> >>>> sed -i '/isGreeter/,+2 s:^://:' js/ui/status/keyboard.js >> >> Well, this means it'll use a session settings instead of a system >> settings. OK, but which one? I cannot change the gdm session anyway, >> it's not my user session! Will try anyway. >> >>> >>> Another solution for BLFS would be to remove gdm from the System V >>> book. We already do that with gnome-logs. We still have lightdm and >>> lxdm. >> >> Already answered that there is no strong reason to remove it. But >> actually, there is no strong reason to keep it either... >> >> Pierre >> -- >> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support >> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> > > Hello Pierre, > > I thought that was my last suggestion, though I have now had another that > *may* actually work. > > Take a look at /etc/gdm/Xsession > > Within there they most certainly do have a keyboard layout section, perhaps > you could remove the string variable and just hard-code the keyboard layout > there. >
OK, seems we've got it working! What made it work is the change in js/ui/status/keyboard.js from gnome-shell. No need for localed, no need to use Xorg instead of wayland, but I've done two small changes (I doubt they are relevant to this problem, but they provide a cleaner build): - add -Dsystemd=false to the meson options in gnome-shell (makes the instructions for removing systemd units useless) - change -DWITH_SYSTEMDSYSTEMUNITDIR= to -DWITH_SYSTEMDUSERUNITDIR=no in evolution-data server (prevents installing some systemd user units (note that the change is not only to add "no", it is in the name of the variable too: SYSTEM->USER) So the changes need are the two above, and the sed proposed by Bruce (this one is mandatory). I'll do those. Thanks to all who have participated in this thread, and specially to Gregory for his patience, and for finding the thread about gnome-shell. Also, changing /etc/localtime to a symlink has an immediate effect of changing the clock to the right timezone (that's really amazing, at the time you hit return, the clock changes), thanks Bruce. I think we should change /etc/localtime to a symlink in the Sysv book. Thanks again Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
