Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 05:01:15 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: German keyboard support for gdm??? Message-ID: <20180203050115.102d6f98@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <CALMZ5n6zyx6noN-B1GZT3Wp7Bh5uOE9YTq0N-D6c1b4mUqbf9w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALMZ5n5Sk8iaOM3W_3du4LzDafSTNvCKnmAMaY2i7sLniecEkA@mail.gmail.com> <20180202141115.aa7bbf16.freebsd@edvax.de> <CALMZ5n6zyx6noN-B1GZT3Wp7Bh5uOE9YTq0N-D6c1b4mUqbf9w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:08:46 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> c) Use Gnome's configuration utility (the one which can also
>> configure gdm). I've never used that, so I cannot be more
>> specific, sorry. :-)
>>
>Which one might that be: I have got gnome-control-center,
>gnome-tweak-tool and dconf-editor and can't see where anything about
>gdm could be done ...
Hi,
from command line use the gsettings command or the dconf command. In
your case gesetttings is the way to go.
If something like
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
#Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
doesn't work, then GDM's or it's greeter's config overrides the X
settings. Keep in mind that GNOME upstream supports/expects Wayland as
GNOME default. This already breaks Linux installs and much more likely
will breake FreeBSD installs.
Perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Keyboard_layout does
help, but I would stay away from a GUI to change the appropriate
setting/s.
I once provided a short example how to use gsettings for the dconf crap,
see
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2017-October/msg00110.html ,
just use GDM insteadof evolution related keywords for the grep pipe.
Regards,
Ralf
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