Hi, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez<[email protected]> wrote: > No, things changed recently. X now uses what console-setup uses, through > hal. So first thing is to dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and configure > it correctly. Then check in “pure” xorg (startx /usr/bin/xterm) how is > the layout configured.
Sure enough, it autodetects the "us" layout: r...@eee: /etc # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Layout (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section. (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) <default keyboard>: XkbLayout: "us" Even after a console-setup reconfigure, and without an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. So it doesn't work. Meanwhile tty's work fine and use "es" layout. >> Also, I have not checked "use system defaults", so why should xfce4 >> care about what X is using? > > Because, by default, xfce will autodetect what X uses and use that. > Changing the layout only works during the session. So the layout is stored, but not applied for the next session? Strange. Wouldn't it make more sense to reapply the keyboard settings for the next session, if "use system defaults" is not set? > It seems there is a bug there. When you're only adding a layout (and not > a keyboard model, or not checking/unchecking the “Use X configuration”), > no config file is written, so nothing is changed in what X uses (see > above for X stuff) > > This is already reported, you can follow and comment upstream bug report > at http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5205 OK. So, to clarify things, there are three different issues here: - X server does not pick up the console keyboard settings configured with console-setup. - xfce4 does not set its own keyboard layout, even when told to ignore system defaults. - xfce4 does not change its settings when selecting a keyboard layout (but it does when picking a different model or changing "use system defaults". Last to first: the third one is already reported upstream. For the second one I am waiting to hear your opinion, and then maybe report it upstream. So only the first one remains. If you agree with the analysis above, can you reassign this Debian bug to the proper X package (xserver-xorg maybe) to try and solve the first issue? Thanks, Alex. _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
