Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:47:47 +0100 From: Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard problems (was Re: Solution) Message-ID: <4390B2F3.1000303@nieser.net> In-Reply-To: <4390A7AC.5000806@xs4all.nl> References: <1133550903.757.24.camel@tower> <4390A7AC.5000806@xs4all.nl>
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Hans Nieser wrote:
> Mark Nowiasz wrote:
>> Hans Nieser wrote:
>>
>>> I suppose this means that if you want a non-default keyboard layout you
>>> have to set it through the XkbModel/XkbLayout options in xorg.conf from
>>> now on. I wonder why the Keyboard Preferences dialog wasn't updated
>>> accordingly though... I might be entirely wrong about this
>>
>> Actually, this is quite hard to believe - this would make the keyboard
>> preferences (and the panel) totally useless. In this case, Gnome should
>> disable the settings.
>>
>> It's also hard to believe because there are very valid reasons to allow
>> the user to use a different layout (instead of the system's layout):
>>
>> * consider a true multi-user system, where users want to use
>> "their" native keyboard layout (for example, at a international
>> university)
>> * sometimes, it's quite useful to switch layouts on the fly - the
>> US keyboard layout has certain aadvantages to the German one
>> when you want to program something ({}[] are more easily
>> accessible).
>>
>> Disabling this feature would be madness, IMHO.
>
>
> I fully agree, which is why I am seriously doubting wether my conclusion
> is correct, but then the comments for the
> "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/overrideSettings" key are
> pretty clear about it too.
>
> I guess they real question is, what is meant by "system configuration"?,
> is it user-specific? (although I suppose the name can be percieved to
> imply that it is not), and where is it changed?
On a side-note, after messing a bit with keyboard-related parameters in my
xorg.conf, I was presented with a dialog upon logging into Gnome asking me
that the X and Gnome keyboard settings didn't match, and which ones I
wanted to use. I chose Gnome, but it still ignored my keyboard settings
from gconf (U.S. English International with deadkeys), and the error was
still there.
(PS. I modified the subject to indicate the problem isn't solved for
everyone yet.)
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