On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:57:12PM -0700, ottomeister wrote: > On 5/15/07, Sean Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think the correct keymap-file, submitted for > >incluesion to all Gnome installs is the way to. > > No. The correct way to go is for Gnome to stop trying to > interfere with the keyboard mapping when it doesn't > have enough knowledge to be able to do the right thing. > (That's essentially "always".) > > Even in the very narrow case of a local console where > the desktop might be able to get the right answer, the > correct thing to do is to configure the X server (not the > desktop) to use the correct mapping.
Just to follow up on all this: I run Feisty with the most recent SRSS 4 beta. It was not possible to get backspace/space to work under GDM with the default Feisty setup. Renaming xmodmap didn't help at all. I installed the xkb-legacy-data package (which uninstalled the xkb-data package, gnome-panel and a lot of other gnome packages) and that seemed to do the trick completely. We use gdm to manage the displays, but we do not use the gnome desktop as such (people run xfce, fluxbox/twm or kde). Under GDM the keyboard works (including space and backspace). Under whatever GDM starts (kde/xfce/...) the keyboard works perfectly fine as well. So, right now, I am a very happy camper with SRSS and Feisty - it works for all practical purposes so far (and thunderbird/firefox work as well as they do not depend on gnome panel/applets that depend on the xkb-data package that doesn't work with SRSS) :) I'm testing the beta with real users now. -- / jakob _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://node1.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
