>>>>>> 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 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. > > I think I can reproduce your problem. I used kcontrol to add another > keyboard layout under "Regional & Accesibility" and the keyboard layout > widget now appears when the the screen is locked. When I click the > widget it's text changes to "err". It seems to be a bug in > kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1 because the system tray widget works fine.
Thanks a lot Zac, I'm not using split ebuilds so this seems to be a kde bug indeed. I've filed a bug report to kde.org. Bug ID #109234. It's real annoying and hopefully will be fixed soon enough. Sasha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
