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

[JA Magallón]

Hi....

Sorry for the delay, I've been busy with end-of-term festivals in
my children' schools ;)...

>>
>>> - keyboard layout under Gnome got reset to English (from Spanish).
>>> Changed manually under
>>>    system settings and fine again.
>>

One addtional problem is that GDM starts with english keyboard which
is a problem for passwords with non alpha-num chars... :).

>> Interesting. Does this new setting survive a reboot? Does the new
>> mapping work at the system level (i.e. is the layout respected in GDM)?

Yep, the setting survives a reboot for the user that changed it, but
as I said above it does not change GDM settings. I did not try to do it
with system tools, just user preferences.
And keymap is OK in virtual consoles.

>>
>> Do you have a /etc/vconsole.conf file?

Nop, I have not. I think system settings were in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard.

>
> OK, so I don't really understand why it's broken. I think it's maybe a
> regression in that X is no longer inheriting settings from the console,
> but I think longer term this is a valid thing (maybe there will not be a
> console to inherit from in the future?)
>
> So, it seems that systemd-localed will write an Xorg snippet into
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf when the keyboard is set. Thus
> your setting of it via the Gnome System Settings will have written this
> file (can you confirm it exists?) and it will remain there for the
> remaining boots.

This file does not exist in my box, I just used user prefs to change
the map, not sytem ones.

>
> Longer term, we need to make sure the installer runs this daemon for
> fresh installs. And perhaps we should run it on upgrade automatically
> too to ensure it's written as needed.
>

I will try to write an /etc/vconsole.conf and see if it works.
Perhaps the fix is just to write it from /etc/syscofig/keyboard...

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J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...