gconf settings for gdm login

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 07:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 19:05 -0800, John Reiser a écrit :
> > On 02/22/2010 03:07 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > There is much worse - it does not let you set the keyboard layour
> > > anymore, so anyone in a non-qwerty locale will have a lot of problem
> > > inputting his login (sometimes it won't be possible at all, since qwerty
> > > does not give access to a lot of letters)
> > 
> > With qwerty many letters have no one-key equivalent; but does the
> > <compose> key work?   <compose> allows entering any byte by entering
> > its numeric value.
> 
> Does not matter. Someone who has direct access to a letter on his normal
> keyboard layout is very unlikely to know a compose sequence for it (let
> alone a compose sequence on an unfamiliar layout)

A week or two ago I tried just poking at gconf settings for the gdm
user, which I believe worked only for one reboot.

Jon.