From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Feb 4 16:39:28 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6EEEDF6E6 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 16:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from opsyspref@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ot0-x22f.google.com (mail-ot0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c0f::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72C8187283 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 16:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from opsyspref@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ot0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id v5so24853369oth.5 for ; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:39:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=bhVfkMK6OQmKZvluyfXfdVXj1rLNUbPdKHDpuxkIeyg=; b=mIlHzZpc53bdLJLn2xBeRTcRVw9eyX/k7JCOz2qNT7mr5iAhAcwjE7XZKguTcv3rCu FBtG3ZIh7g8GhZqzjRBsVLYeWQq45ETHO4jgJXtno4gp1N/RqD1Lt25+Vfm/mkZnR+mf ERz24BcApb+O+zGZzzyQsQ4LMRuTGkysdTcGQ2p9DY21miH3zwWjjzecroYSVt75VWBi 6+4SEUiQsqvgdWjQlwT18f1aftYNUdmWm6jycQOluBU1HiZtHeHRazpahnzM1MSw+yuC Ik1+Pjj64YkJK6KTUsBBNLxBOjEKBWq3DBtudwg5+1vGzRt8vqW3y+4nfbd8c0XBfoWJ TlCw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=bhVfkMK6OQmKZvluyfXfdVXj1rLNUbPdKHDpuxkIeyg=; b=enPA9Wv/8mC89Q+VC4TQsTLrHF5Yu2bymJHrbVpQnSpMa968IbJ+RZVatu758im2iB 1f7KEcVmrfiV2k4MNBKBUgkiVIUT2gpmSFUka2oqDoVhlqYgFpUeWF7RsZhXYbwHvgi0 hQvAihwj1qGPOFp4H8BONwJiJERBHM1agVAIvGXlxy46NKu5Rx19FQIJGSTyoR13yFoB fwRbsgmjT4/GEzWraam8nH9maR/OWNDXcBcUyZpWhOUbJoIEJO/pI4TPQRUz9RILmgZf vbZrJU29RYPqEjGuecWEsqyu1+0Oj4LkukF3d9vSwGhYVZw+14L+qW74qf3g77JpznTu RjVA== X-Gm-Message-State: APf1xPDOv418MRM2wLoQO5HDe2aZlRlwyp03WvTFYbXous/bOe/FLwdu Wky43cafDVhqq7EE1XA6EF+3Xle5z4p2QM6qIQYuCg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x227IHDUpLc+2iQVUI/NxXKC+VLoFRxOiPFMVEx3xTFTa/5MsC4I8RfsORfHnHC6n03n76A/rcZA9Wzex3uZEErE= X-Received: by 10.157.33.196 with SMTP id s62mr9897772otb.368.1517762366492; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 08:39:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.11.203 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 08:39:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:39:26 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: German keyboard support for gdm??? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 16:39:28 -0000 So now, I couldn't solve my problem with gdm but after some failed experiments with some more login-managers (xdm, lightdm, slim) I found x11/sddm . When I edit the file /usr/local/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup by adding the line setxkbmap de,us and reboot, I get a language selector with DE and US keyboard. I think that's as simple as it should be. Greetings Peter On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 5:04 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hello, > > does anyone know how to make gnome's display manager gdm understand german > keyboard input? > I can find many discussions, hints and ideas in the web, but whatever I > try, gdm stubbornly insists on using en_US default keyboard. > > I am running gdm-3.16.4_3 from ports on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE amd64 . > My german keyboard is supported on console and "inside" Gnome 3 , but not > on gdm's username/password dialog. > > Thanks an greetings > > Peter >