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installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 40273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:03:54 +0200

Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 05:20:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> > GDM retains my U.S. English layout even after herd stop xorg-server
>> 
>> That’s a regression.  Localed was added exactly one year ago to fix this
>> problem in commit 607fcc75404e2b1fc74affcf372b4a6a789ac55e.  I’ve spent
>> a couple of hours investigating and I don’t know why it doesn’t work,
>> especially since it works fine once logged in in GNOME (it’s the same
>> code, GNOME Shell).
>
> Sorry!  It is entirely my fault.  I had not known that if I don’t put
> a keyboard-layout field in set-xorg-configuration, I always get
> U.S. layout.

Hmm, on master, if I change desktop.tmpl to use the “fr” layout, I get a
French keyboard layout in the console, but not in GDM.  (In a fresh VM
built with ‘guix system vm’.)

Can you confirm you see this problem?

Ludo’.

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