On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > But before trying to build the first gnome-based debian-edu-cd I have > one big problem: > bug #296434 - http://bugs.debian.org/296434 > I set up Norwegian (I've tried with danish as well), and in the > console and in gdm everything seems to be set up correctly. but when > gnome starts, I get US keyboard. This seems to have been a known bug in > Fedora Core around the time they switched from XFree86 packages to > X.org packages, but Debian has not yet switched. I've tried with > Ubuntu, and there things works. So I have two questions for you: > - Does this problem applies in German, French and other languages as > well ?
I get the same problem with Finnish and Russian keymaps. > - SHould this bug be other priority than normal - I mean this bug is > grave, as it prevents us from having a preconfigured environment. It's worse than that: it messes up the default keymaps configured in X and that results in several meta keys no longer being mapped correctly. > I would not like to tell hundreds of users to use > "gnome-keyboard-properties" to set up their keyboard even if X and > keyboard has been set up correctly. gnome-keyboard-properties also appears to be broken. I suspect it to be dependent upon the presence of X.org to work. Here, using Debian's XFree86 4.3.0, GNOME complains loudly that loading XKB maps failed, which leaves me with a severely broken keyboard that is barely usable. Another possibility could be that libklavier got broken recently. -- Martin-�ric Racine http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
