On 26 June 2012 15:47, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah I think there was a change here, but upstream haven't confirmed > what is really is to blame yet. I'll go prod them again. > > Basically the "correct" (apparently) way of doing it is to ensure a > snippet is written to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ that sets up the correct > keyboard layout for the system - user settings can override this but the > primary mapping will be used by e.g. gdm, kdm etc. > > This is done and managed by localed (which is stated on-demand when such > settings are changed at a higher level - e.g. in gnome's system > settings) so it's really just a matter of doing some dbus magic and it's > nicely abstracted from X11 stuff so when Wayland comes along, the higher > level stuff will still work the same which is nice. > > I need to find a way to write this config on package upgrade I guess. > > > Regarding what actually changed, I think X used to inherit the tty's > locale settings (which are obviously correct as you can login there) but > now it does not. Something like that.
I doubt this. That would have affected mga2 too. Maybe related: keyboard is OK for me under GNOME, but not under XFCE.
