Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:57:58 +0100 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <opsyspref@gmail.com> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: German keyboard support for gdm??? Message-ID: <CALMZ5n5kDZbwPG7%2BfeB1Cv%2B8NgNOPy1PwPmdEgLLJmeVbYO4ag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180203163902.0ae3ea93@archlinux.localdomain> References: <CALMZ5n5Sk8iaOM3W_3du4LzDafSTNvCKnmAMaY2i7sLniecEkA@mail.gmail.com> <20180202141115.aa7bbf16.freebsd@edvax.de> <CALMZ5n6zyx6noN-B1GZT3Wp7Bh5uOE9YTq0N-D6c1b4mUqbf9w@mail.gmail.com> <20180203050115.102d6f98@archlinux.localdomain> <1517646306.4926.3.camel@alice-dsl.net> <1517646733.4926.6.camel@alice-dsl.net> <20180203133622.1b4048de.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180203163902.0ae3ea93@archlinux.localdomain>
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Hmm, this sounds a bit frustrated. I didn't use freebsd for some time because somewhere around 9.x things started getting a little bit too weird for my daily work. Last week I came across some old notebook at work and was completely surprised I could install and run FreeBSD 11.1 nearly "out of the box". Especially Gnome-3 runs as smoothly as one can expect and looks quite nice. So someone seems to have invested a lot of work and I would like to make use of it. Peter On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions < freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 13:36:22 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > >Overriding an X (global!) setting is still a bad idea for "the right > >behaviour" for GDM, in my opinion... but well, that's Linux... ;-) > > I won't tolerate that :D! Asuming this should be the case, then it's a > GTK/GNOME folks related upstream default config issue! > > I suspect that several display managers or their greeters provide an > option to override X settings, but this at least is disabled by > default (if this should be the GDM culprit, theire still is the chance > for the FreeBSD maintainers to care about the defaults ;). > > However, FreeBSD does provide Linux DEs. At least the "big" DE's seem > to require Wayland as an X replacement in the close future. > > The last time I used FreeBSD + Linux I was on Xfce, nowadays I'm using > Linux only and migrated to a plain window manager. I can't stand DE's > anymore and on top of my "I can't stand this list" is GNOME >2, > given that I never tested Unity and I gnore something ridiculous, such > as Enlightenment. > > Btw. I don't remember why I renamed a lightdm config to *fuck > in 2013, but it definitively wasn't a keyboard language issue. > > $ ls -hAl /etc/lightdm/ > total 40K > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Dec 23 11:45 keys.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.9K Dec 23 11:45 lightdm.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.7K Aug 2 2013 lightdm.conf.fuck > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Aug 7 2013 lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K Mar 8 2015 lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.2.0.0-2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7K Oct 29 19:33 lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.pacnew > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452 Dec 23 11:45 users.conf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5K Dec 23 11:45 Xsession > > Everything depending on GTK >= 3.20 does break things, even within > minor relases, IOW you even can't trust common soname sense. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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