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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:24:31
Message-Id: 42DABD9D.7090709@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4 by Alexander Kirillov
1 Alexander Kirillov wrote:
2 >>>Kb layout switch in session unlock screen
3 >>>doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4
4 >>>When kde session locks on timeout
5 >>>and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout
6 >>>I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X
7 >>>to get things back to normal.
8 >>>This only happens when unlocking a session
9 >>>and works well inside kde.
10 >>>Any ideas?
11 >>
12 >>Sounds like it could be a security constraint. A locked screen
13 >>shouldn't allow much more than password input. You can't input the
14 >>password with the non-en layout? Too bad :-(.
15 >
16 >
17 > Hi Zac,
18 > That doesn't sound optimistic. Does it?
19 > The problem is it used to be working.
20 > And the widget to switch kb layouts is still there.
21 > But it doesn't work as expected.
22 > And yep. The damn password is all ascii. Too bad.
23 > I've just found this is not the only problem I'm having
24 > with i18n in kde. For some reason I can't switch encodings in
25 > kde editors either.
26 > I should mention this happened after massive system cleanup.
27 > Removed gnome and a bunch of multimedia soft I didn't need any more.
28 > Followed by usual depcleans and revdep-rebuilds.
29 > Didn't find any inconsistences in installed ebuilds though.
30 > So the challenge still stands and all suggestions welcome.
31 > Sasha
32 >
33
34 I wasn't aware that such a widget existed. If I knew how to make the widget appear and switch keyboard layouts then I would gladly test it for you on my end.
35
36 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4 Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us@××××××××.su>