>>>> Kb layout switch in session unlock screen >>>> doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 >>>> When kde session locks on timeout >>>> and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout >>>> I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X >>>> to get things back to normal. >>>> This only happens when unlocking a session >>>> and works well inside kde. >>>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Sounds like it could be a security constraint. A locked screen >>> shouldn't allow much more than password input. You can't input the >>> password with the non-en layout? Too bad :-(. >> >> That doesn't sound optimistic. Does it? >> The problem is it used to be working. >> And the widget to switch kb layouts is still there. >> But it doesn't work as expected. >> And yep. The damn password is all ascii. Too bad. >> I've just found this is not the only problem I'm having >> with i18n in kde. For some reason I can't switch encodings in >> kde editors either. >> I should mention this happened after massive system cleanup. >> Removed gnome and a bunch of multimedia soft I didn't need any more. >> Followed by usual depcleans and revdep-rebuilds. >> Didn't find any inconsistences in installed ebuilds though. >> So the challenge still stands and all suggestions welcome. > > I wasn't aware that such a widget existed. If I knew how to make the > widget appear and switch keyboard layouts then I would gladly test it > for you on my end.
Thanks. Would be good if you have time for this. I think you have to add an extra kb layout for the widget to show up in session unlock screen. I'm using en_US and ru. BTW what I said above of not being able to switch encodings in kde editors isn't true. Early birds have big eyes they say:) I probably didn't select proper encoding when saving non-en document. So it's all question marks (3f hex). No wonder I couldn't get the encoding right. Thanks for your help, Sasha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
