prefered way of configuring X11 keyboard layouts in F18

Marcela Mašláňová mmaslano at redhat.com
Fri Nov 30 13:06:03 UTC 2012


On 11/30/2012 01:33 PM, Jan Včelák wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> what is the expected way of handling X11 keyboard layouts in Fedora 18?
>
> I don't use xorg.conf, the configuration was autodetected from
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (probably) till F17 and it worked just fine. After
> upgrading to F18 using yum method, my keyboard layout stopped working.
>
> Should the X11 server (or login managers) autodetect the layout from new
> config files? Or is 'localectl set-x11-keymap' the only supported way now?
>
> If 'localectl' is the only supported way, we should add this information to
> "Upgrading Fedora using yum" instructions on the wiki. The same with old
> kernel options. (I do not know how is this handled in the other upgrade
> methods.)
>
> If the old configuration files are supposed to work, what is the responsible
> component I should file bug on?
>
> Jan
>
I guess now is used /etc/vconsole.conf. Could you add it into upgrade 
page if it works for you?
Imho it's related to my previous question:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/963

Marcela


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