kde session keyboard settings

[Aman Alam]

On ਮੰਗਲਵਾਰ  31 ਦਸੰਬਰ 2013 09:14 ਸਵੇਰੇ, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 31/12/13 13:58, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>> Am 31.12.2013 12:38, schrieb Roderick Johnstone:
>> ...
>>>
>>> Now on to x2go...
>>> By setting keyboard layout and keyboard model alternately to (gb,
>>> pc105/gb) and then (fr, pc105/fr) I found that the requested keyboard
>>> layout was set but only on the first login via x2go. I found I could
>>> reset the keyboard if I removed the ~/.config directory. Later I found
>>> that all that was needed was to remove the ~/.config/dconf directory.
>>>
>>> Console sessions were always right now, no matter what.
>>>
>>> As you found out too, in the x2go session the IBus keyboard icon was
>>> displayed in the system tray. I then found that by removing all the
>>> ibus* packages the keyboard layout was set correctly in the x2go session
>>> every time.
>>>
>>> Like you, I'm not too sure what IBus is doing but it seems to remember
>>> the first keyboard layout used in the x2go sessions and thereafter
>>> always use that for x2go sessions, but not console sessions.
>>
>> I digged a littel deeper in this and found im-chooser. with local login
>> this is set to "none", with x2go login this is set to "IBus". I switched
>> this in my 2go session to None as well an still had us keyboard but no
>> ibus any longer.
>>
>> After setting german keyboard in the kde keyboard dialog ("input
>> devices" in kde system settings) I got german keyboard after every
>> login. I don't use different keyboard layouts here. Testing with x2go
>> keyboard layout settings does not set the keyboard in the x2go session
>> accordingly (tested with us keyboard layout).
>>
>> Still confused about this
>> Martin
>>
>>>
>>> I hope that this all remains stable for me now. My experience with the
>>> x2go keyboard layout setting is that just as I think I've got it
>>> working, it stops working!
>>>
>>> Roderick
>
> Martin
>
> So, I just did a completely fresh install (with the correct kickstart
> keyboard command, without any ibus packages and touching
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir) and used a fresh user account.
>
> The keyboard mappings are still good when connecting via x2go (and
> changeable via the x2go client)!
>
> I also tried with Mac client and that was able to set the keyboard ok as
> well, although it didnt want to connect at all with the keyboard type
> set to "auto".
>
> It sounds like you have yours in a usable state as well now.
>
> Maybe someone who knows more about the IBus and im-chooser stuff can
> suggest how to make it work with IBus, but at least for me, that doesn't
> seem to be needed at the moment.
>
Fedora i18n team (i18n at fedoraproject.org list) can help for ibus/im-chooser

thanks
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A S Alam
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