Bug#344871: kdm: changing Language option breaks keyboard input
Cleaning out my inbox and found this bug languishing behind. I upgraded to 3.5 three or four months back, and the all three settings of the LANG variable produce the correct behaviour. This bug can be closed. On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:55:00AM -0500, Christopher Martin wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2005 15:16, Itai Seggev wrote: I started with the Debian pacakged kdmrc, then edited the file by hand. I tried using the KDE Control Center as you suggested, and that worked fine. Confused, I looked at the config file it generated, and saw that it set Lang to he rather than he_IL or he he_IL.UTF-8 (from the default en_US). I then restored my original kdmrc and put in he for Lang, and it also worked. Thus, it seems to be a bug (why does using he_IL rather than he break some of the functionality?), but perhaps not as serious as I originally thought. Also, if you have any systems/chroots where you're feeling daring, could you see if the problem occurs using KDM 3.5 from experimental? No chroots handy, but it should be easy to test whether setting Lang to he_IL continues to be a problem in 3.5 as described above. OK, I re-installed kde-i18n-he, and changed Language=en_US to Language=he, he_IL, and he_IL.UTF-8. All three seemed to work. I then hacked together a KDE 3.4 setup. There, all he locales resulted in empty boxes instead of Hebrew characters, though I could still log in. Not exactly the same results as you obtained, but interesting. It would appear that something has been fixed for KDE 3.5, hopefully including the problem you noticed. I'll leave the bug open until you can confirm that KDE 3.5 works (or not), when it enters Unstable/Testing or whenever you feel like trying it, since this is an important issue. Anyone else using a Hebrew desktop with KDE 3.5 is welcome to chime in. Thanks, Christopher Martin -- Itai Itai Seggev, University of Mississippi, Department of Physics and Astronomy In 1997 a group of programmers started writing a desktop environment to fix a travesty they didn't create. Their program promptly found its way onto un*x systems everywhere. Today, still opposed by a software monopolist, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you share their vision, if you know you can help, and if you can connect to internet, maybe you can join... the K-Team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#344871: kdm: changing Language option breaks keyboard input
On Saturday 31 December 2005 15:16, Itai Seggev wrote: I started with the Debian pacakged kdmrc, then edited the file by hand. I tried using the KDE Control Center as you suggested, and that worked fine. Confused, I looked at the config file it generated, and saw that it set Lang to he rather than he_IL or he he_IL.UTF-8 (from the default en_US). I then restored my original kdmrc and put in he for Lang, and it also worked. Thus, it seems to be a bug (why does using he_IL rather than he break some of the functionality?), but perhaps not as serious as I originally thought. Also, if you have any systems/chroots where you're feeling daring, could you see if the problem occurs using KDM 3.5 from experimental? No chroots handy, but it should be easy to test whether setting Lang to he_IL continues to be a problem in 3.5 as described above. OK, I re-installed kde-i18n-he, and changed Language=en_US to Language=he, he_IL, and he_IL.UTF-8. All three seemed to work. I then hacked together a KDE 3.4 setup. There, all he locales resulted in empty boxes instead of Hebrew characters, though I could still log in. Not exactly the same results as you obtained, but interesting. It would appear that something has been fixed for KDE 3.5, hopefully including the problem you noticed. I'll leave the bug open until you can confirm that KDE 3.5 works (or not), when it enters Unstable/Testing or whenever you feel like trying it, since this is an important issue. Anyone else using a Hebrew desktop with KDE 3.5 is welcome to chime in. Thanks, Christopher Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#344871: kdm: changing Language option breaks keyboard input
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:36:42PM -0500, Christopher Martin wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 00:51, Itai Seggev wrote: Package: kdm Version: 4:3.4.3-3 Severity: important Tags: l10n KDM has 'issues' reading /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc configuration files from older versions of kdm, so just to make sure that your problem isn't in this category, it would be good to purge and reinstall KDM 3.4 (you can of course backup the old kdmrc first). I started with the Debian pacakged kdmrc, then edited the file by hand. I tried using the KDE Control Center as you suggested, and that worked fine. Confused, I looked at the config file it generated, and saw that it set Lang to he rather than he_IL or he he_IL.UTF-8 (from the default en_US). I then restored my original kdmrc and put in he for Lang, and it also worked. Thus, it seems to be a bug (why does using he_IL rather than he break some of the functionality?), but perhaps not as serious as I originally thought. Also, if you have any systems/chroots where you're feeling daring, could you see if the problem occurs using KDM 3.5 from experimental? No chroots handy, but it should be easy to test whether setting Lang to he_IL continues to be a problem in 3.5 as described above. Thanks, -- Itai Itai Seggev, University of Mississippi, Department of Physics and Astronomy In 1997 a group of programmers started writing a desktop environment to fix a travesty they didn't create. Their program promptly found its way onto un*x systems everywhere. Today, still opposed by a software monopolist, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you share their vision, if you know you can help, and if you can connect to internet, maybe you can join... the K-Team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#344871: kdm: changing Language option breaks keyboard input
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 00:51, Itai Seggev wrote: Package: kdm Version: 4:3.4.3-3 Severity: important Tags: l10n If I keep the Language option in kdmrc on the default en_US, then the greeter will happily accept both Hebrew and Enlgish input, even though all the menu items are in Englsih. If, however, I change the option to he_IL or he_IL.UTF-8, then it stops accept Hebrew input. If I try typing hebrew in a text field, all I get are empty boxes. If I try activating a menu using Alt-key, it fails. This happens on both my x86 desktop and my powerbook. This is new to 3.4 (I had no problem with Hebrew kdm in 3.3 or earlier). KDM has 'issues' reading /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc configuration files from older versions of kdm, so just to make sure that your problem isn't in this category, it would be good to purge and reinstall KDM 3.4 (you can of course backup the old kdmrc first). Also, if you have any systems/chroots where you're feeling daring, could you see if the problem occurs using KDM 3.5 from experimental? I've tried to reproduce the problem using the KDE 3.5 chroot I'm running over the holidays. The Alt key does seem to be messed up, but I can type the (non-Hebrew) username and password and log in. Note that I installed kde-i18n-he, ran dpkg-reconfigure locales to add the Hebrew locales, and then used the KDE Control Centre's kdm configuration module to set the language to Hebrew. If you're doing something different, let me know. I'll be able to try again on a KDE 3.4 system in a week or so. Thanks, Christopher Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#344871: kdm: changing Language option breaks keyboard input
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.4.3-3 Severity: important Tags: l10n If I keep the Language option in kdmrc on the default en_US, then the greeter will happily accept both Hebrew and Enlgish input, even though all the menu items are in Englsih. If, however, I change the option to he_IL or he_IL.UTF-8, then it stops accept Hebrew input. If I try typing hebrew in a text field, all I get are empty boxes. If I try activating a menu using Alt-key, it fails. This happens on both my x86 desktop and my powerbook. This is new to 3.4 (I had no problem with Hebrew kdm in 3.3 or earlier). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable'), (10, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14cavy1 Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages kdm depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0]1.4.65 Debian configuration management sy hi kdebase-bin 4:3.4.3-3 core binaries for the KDE base mod hi kdebase-data 4:3.4.3-3 shared data files for the KDE base ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.4.3-2 core libraries for all KDE applica ii libc62.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libqt3-mt3:3.3.5-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li ii libxau6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Authentication library ii libxdmcp66.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Display Manager Control Protocol ii libxtst6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System event recording an ii xbase-clients6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 miscellaneous X clients Versions of packages kdm recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.1-2Log rotation utility -- debconf information: kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false * shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
