Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote:
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 3:39 AM
From: "Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [blfs-support] gdm: how to use a non us keyboard?
On 8/26/19 10:33 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
On 8/26/19 1:48 AM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote:
They found that the issue is with gnome-shell which forces the use of
systemd.
They created a patch back in January of this year, which may well be
able to be modified for lfs/blfs purposes:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235009
Pierre, try rebuilding gnome shell with:
sed -i '/isGreeter/,+2 d' js/ui/status/keyboard.js
alternatively:
sed -i '/isGreeter/,+2 s:^://:' js/ui/status/keyboard.js
Another solution for BLFS would be to remove gdm from the System V book.
We already do that with gnome-logs. We still have lightdm and lxdm.
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Hello,
I have one final suggestion to try. I did this when NOTHING worked with
getting sddm to work with KDE in /opt I created a .xsession file in my users
home directory,
and made it executable:
#!/bin/bash
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session $KF5_PREFIX/bin/startkde
Perhaps adding the command to change the keyboard layout would work within this
file, as it is for graphical logins with a display manager:
setxkbmap fr
Hmm, do I understand correctly you want to put this file in the my user
home folder? That wouldn't do anything for entering the password on the
gdm screen, since that is done before the user session is started: since
this login screen is run as gdm user, it does not have access to other
users homes, I think. It is in the gdm screen that I cannot change the
keyboard layout. I can change the keyboard layout for the user without
much difficulty (in gnome-control-center).
Actually, now that I have a "login screen" button in "region and
language" screen, the only thing that is missing is that this button is
inactive, and I think it is a permission problem. But which one ?
(Hello, Ken :)
BTW, there is no strong reason to remove gdm from the Sysv book: it is
always possible to use the screen keyboard to enter the password. We may
just add a note about that for non us keyboard users.
Also, has anybody been able to set the timezone to something other than
UTC in GNOME/elogind? Permission problem again?
Pierre
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