On 02/09/2019 23:05, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > Hi, > I'm coming back to "how to fix gdm". What we have now is a hack, that allows > setting the keyboard layout for gdm at compile time, but prevents being able > to set it and other properties of gdm in gnome-control-center (no "login > screen" button). > > Gnome-shell, gnome-control-center, and gnome-setting-daemons insist on having > the localed daemon to do the job, so it might be a better idea to install it. > > localed is a small daemon, and there is not much to add (to port from the > systemd source, exactly) to elogind to have this daemon on our system.
I've made a patch and uploaded it to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~pierre/elogind-241.3-add_localed-2.patch Apply it to elogind-241.3. Build elogind with instructions as in the book. Then (re)build gnome-shell without the "sed", and gdm without the "cat", otherwise as per the book instructions. You may have to ensure that dbus is running (it was on my machine), then issue: localectl set-x11-keymap fr (this will create or amend /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf) Obviously, you have to change the "fr" part to something else for another keyboard layout, (for example gb or de) then restart in runlevel 5: - the keyboard in gdm is "fr" - there is a "login screen" in gnome settings "region and language", and it can be clicked (it asks then for "root" password), and you can change the login screen settings (not only the keyboard). The patch is not finished yet, because it does not install the man pages for localectl and localed. But the executables seem to be ok. I wonder whether this should be sent to upstream elogind, or made as an independent project. Actually, I wonder whether it couldn't be good to group eudev, elogind, and localed into one package (datetimed could be useful too). But I do not know of a proper place to discuss that... I may start at elogind. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
