Hello Denis,
[moving this to debian-boot]
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:38:25PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > The problem is, the default sarge installation does not ask about the X
> > layout and silently assigns "us", making it impossible to login in gdm.
>
> In the Debian installer, the localization-config package provides a mapping
> between console and X keyboard maps, which looks like (this is a Perl hash):
>
> 'Turkish (Q layout)' => { XkbLayout => 'tr', XkbOptions => 'caps:shift',
> XkbModel => 'pc105' },
> 'Turkish (F layout)' => { XkbLayout => 'tr', XkbVariant => 'tr_f',
> XkbOptions => 'caps:shift', XkbModel => 'pc105' },
>
> Thus X should have the right settings, the problem being that gdm does
> not use them by default.
Hmm, I don't understand what "gdm does not use them" means. Is it
resetting the mapping to its internal layout? I.e., gnome has its own
layouts noted somewhere, X starts with the value from XF86Config-4, and
gnome does something like setxkbmap -layout xx?
Whatever the mechanism is, I experienced the following:
* I've chosen Turkish F during the installation.
* The console was Turkish F without problems.
* Keyboard layout in gdm was us, not Turkish F.
* Keyboard layout in gnome session was us, not Turkish F.
I also started Paw -> Settings -> Keyboard (don't remember the exact
names, it was in Turkish). There was one layout listed there, and it was
us, not Turkish F. After I added Turkish F, I could switch to it via
RAlt+LAlt. I couldn't switch back to us, probably because RAlt is AltGr
in Turkish F layout. I couldn't find a gnome dialog to set another key
combination for switching the layouts.
So, it seems to be several problems:
* X doesn't inherit tr_f from the installer.
* gnome doesn't inherit tr_f from the installer.
* I need to learn how to set up layout switch in gnome since I use a us
keyboard and can't type Turkish F blindly. What is that "caps:shift"
thingy? I'll try it tomorrow.
With kind regards,
Baurzhan.
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