Bug#692235: gnome-screensaver: switching keyboard layout does not works when screen is locked

[Sébastien Villemot]

Control: reassign -1 gtk+3.0 3.4.2-4
Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed-upstream fixed-in-experimental patch
Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675167
Control: affects -1 gnome-screensaver

Le samedi 03 novembre 2012 à 20:57 +0100, Thomas Pierson a écrit :
> Package: gnome-screensaver
> Version: 3.4.1-1
> Severity: important

> When the screen is locked if I switch the keyboard layout (for example
> azerty to qwerty or azerty to bépo) the "layout icon" change correctly
> but in fact the layout is still unchanged.

I confirm this. It is actually a GTK+ bug which is fixed in experimental
version 3.6.1-1. I attach a patch for 3.4.2-4 that I backported from
upstream git and that fixes the issue.

I think it is important to have this bug fixed in Wheezy, because it is
very hard to type a password (hence not seeing what you are typing) when
the active keymap is not the one that is displayed…

OTOH, the attached patch introduces 2 new symbols in the public API of
GDK, so I don't know if this is suitable at this point of the freeze. 

mbiebl: what's your opinion?

If you decide not to fix this for Wheezy, then you can close this bug,
marking it as fixed in version 3.6.1-1.

Regards,

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