Severe X breakage heads up

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:16 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> On 11/06/07 10:24, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> > This will change soon for gdm, I think. The gdm rewrite will make it
> > possible to have a keyboard layout selector on the login screen, very
> > similar to what you have inside the session. At least that is one of the
> > goals.
> 
> Where does it read the defaults from?  It has to be a file
> easily editable from system-config-keyboard.

The gconf database of the gdm user, I think. It is debatable if that is
easily editable from system-config-keyboard and if it should. Why do you
think that would be necessary ?


> > Switching to evdev is also planned for F9, and will probably be part of
> > the "big breakage".
> 
> Ah, cool!  Who's doing this work?  I'd like to resync
> my OLPC packaging work if possible.

The X guys.