On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:38:32 -0500, Dan B. wrote: > I found why Gnome seemed to behave inconsistently regarding following > Control-key settings in XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard: > > GDM and the rest of Gnome work differently.
You mean GNOME is not respecting your default configuration? sm01@stt008:~$ xmodmap|grep control control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) > In GDM, my Control key _is_ swapped as intended. (Apparently, GDM > starts X without overriding keyboard settings, which X evidently _does_ > get from my /etc/default/keyboard.) > > Once I log in at GDM's prompt and get the Gnome desktop, my Control key > is no longer swapped. Mmm, GDM and GNOME have a different configuration for keyboard/mouse, AFAIK. For instance, although you have enabled in GNOME the mouse "tap" (to mimic left-click) you have to enable again in order to work in GDM by manually editing a Xorg configuration file. What I mean is that having a different behaviour in GDM and GNOME is normal or at least is expected, I guess. > I checked Gnome's Keyboard Preferences. In the Options dialog, the > "Ctrl key position" setting is set to "default". > > However, Gnome is _NOT_ respecting my system/X11 default for the control > key. > > (The help for that dialog box does not say anything about the "default" > setting value's being _Gnome's_ default as opposed to the _system's_ > default.) Does setting the "Ctrl" key from GNOME keyboard properties to another mapping work? > So (for submitting a bug report(s)), which package(s) are Gnome's > keyboard configuration and its help data in? Maybe "xkb-data" but I'm unsure... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
