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From: Charles Trois <charles.trois@×××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:59:06
Message-Id: 452910F6.8010508@wanadoo.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick a écrit :
2 > On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:50 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:
3 >
4 >> I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in
5 >> xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in
6 >> the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole,
7 >> Kate, etc), but the KDE login panel (I don't know its name) ignores it,
8 >> with the result that name and password have to be given in "qwerty",
9 >> which is rather annoying.
10 >
11 > Does Control Centre -> System Admin -> Login Manager -> Appearance ->
12 > Locale fix it?
13 >
14 No. One finds only US English there. French is not available.
15 It's the same with Control Centre -> Regional -> Country and Language.
16 How could one make the system aware of French?
17
18 However, I have been confused, and I apologize for it: the panel I
19 referred to does not seem to belong to KDE. Actually, I don't know how
20 it came up, and I have not seen it again. Probably something in another
21 X application.
22
23 There is something else about KDE: when xdm is added to rc-update, the
24 real KDE login panel shows up at boot, and it understands azerty
25 (contrary to what I had found, see above). But it does not recognize the
26 password, replying "login failed", so that I have to resort to the
27 console login, and do "startx".
28
29 This is serious: how can I fix it?
30
31 Charles
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>