Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 13:36:22 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: German keyboard support for gdm??? Message-ID: <20180203133622.1b4048de.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1517646733.4926.6.camel@alice-dsl.net> 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>
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On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 09:32:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 09:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 05:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Perhaps it isn't a dconf setting, but the config might be located in > > /etc/gdm3/ , IOW take a look using an editor and/or consider to send a > > request to a GNOME mailing list. > > The dconf settings are much likely user related settings only, while GDM > settings should be independent of a user's settings, so dconf unlikely > is the correct config, more likely it is located in /etc/gdm/ or > similar. On FreeBSD, that would probably be /usr/local/etc/gdm or maybe /usr/local/etc/gdm3 worth checking. Overriding an X (global!) setting is still a bad idea for "the right behaviour" for GDM, in my opinion... but well, that's Linux... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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