Bug#296434: gnome for debian-edu

[Finn-Arne Johansen]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:30:05PM +0100, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:55:43PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> > On 20-03-2005 10:20, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote:
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> > > But before trying to build the first gnome-based debian-edu-cd I have
> > > one big problem:
> > >  bug #296434 - http://bugs.debian.org/296434
> > > I set up Norwegian (I've tried with danish as well), and in the
> > > console and in gdm everything seems to be set up correctly. but when
> > > gnome starts, I get US keyboard. This seems to have been a known bug in
> > > Fedora Core around the time they switched from XFree86 packages to
> > > X.org packages, but Debian has not yet switched. I've tried with
> > > Ubuntu, and there things works.
> > 
....
> > Try the following command (in a single line):
> > 
> > # gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> > xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type string --set
> > /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/layouts dk

nope, but you're close:
 gconftool-2 --direct \
             --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
             --type list --list-type string \
             --set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/layouts "[no]"
> 
> > If the above command works, I suggest keeping bug #296434 open but
> > priority normal or lower, and instead file a wishlist bugreport against
> > localization-config to setup gconf2 similarly.
> It should not be necesarry to reconfigure the keyboard for gnome, since
> it works perfectly in gdm. It should be possible to reprogram the
> keyboard but _not_ necesarry :( 

I still think it's important, although I now have a workaround. 
I'll try to get markos to implement a workaround using
localization-config, but I think that's an ugly workaround.

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Finn-Arne Johansen 
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