[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 15:49:25 CEST 2012


On 26 June 2012 15:47, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Yeah I think there was a change here, but upstream haven't confirmed
> what is really is to blame yet. I'll go prod them again.
>
> Basically the "correct" (apparently) way of doing it is to ensure a
> snippet is written to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that sets up the correct
> keyboard layout for the system - user settings can override this but the
> primary mapping will be used by e.g. gdm, kdm etc.
>
> This is done and managed by localed (which is stated on-demand when such
> settings are changed at a higher level - e.g. in gnome's system
> settings) so it's really just a matter of doing some dbus magic and it's
> nicely abstracted from X11 stuff so when Wayland comes along, the higher
> level stuff will still work the same which is nice.
>
> I need to find a way to write this config on package upgrade I guess.
>
>
> Regarding what actually changed, I think X used to inherit the tty's
> locale settings (which are obviously correct as you can login there) but
> now it does not. Something like that.

I doubt this. That would have affected mga2 too.

Maybe related: keyboard is OK for me under GNOME, but not under XFCE.


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