2018-03-19 14:23 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarb...@posteo.de>:
> Hello Catonano
>
> Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2018-03-18 18:58 GMT+01:00 Catonano <caton...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > 2018-03-17 16:01 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarb...@posteo.de>:
> >
> > Hello Catonano
> >
> > Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Can I set up the keyboard layout and my system locale (Italian) for
> my Gnome desktop in my conf.scm file ?
> > >
> > > Otherwise I have to click around in every throaway virtual machine I
> create in order to be able to use the desktop environment
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > To set the keyboard layout in my config.scm I replaced %desktop-services
> > with this:
> >
> > (modify-services %desktop-services
> > (slim-service-type config =>
> > (slim-configuration
> > (inherit config)
> > (startx (xorg-start-command
> > #:configuration-file
> > (xorg-configuration-file
> > ;; Setup X to use a swiss german keyboard layout.
> > #:extra-config
> > '("Section \"InputClass\"
> > Identifier \"keyboard-all\"
> > Option \"XkbLayout\" \"ch\" ; <~ replace \"ch\" with \"it\"
> >
> > Ok, the semicolon is illegal Xorg syntax and made the server crash !!
>
> I am sorry. I meant to write a comment to explain which entry you
> should replace and forgot that my "comment" was still inside the
> string. Everything after and including the semicolon is not supposed to
> be there. I apologise for this silly mistake.
>
No need to apologize, I was not blaming you
Sorry if that came out the wrong way !
> I wrote an example config (based on the one you posted) and verified
> that it works both with `guix system vm-image' and `guix system init'
> (after modifying the target hard disk) and that the X server does not
> crash:
>
> Unfortunately GNOME overrides the system wide keyboard settings. So
> this only addresses your initial concern if you use Xfce.
>
That's something ;-)
For now I used the VMs to open 2 bugs related to Gnome.
There's an "ibus" thing not working
And a control panel crashing
Didn't test your new file yet, I'll let you know !!
Thanks !
