From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuGi9-0002fT-JJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:30:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6HLRoFw015249; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:27:50 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6HLLJvZ017460 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:21:20 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so722820nzd for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:22:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bcK9amGpj3V6n0I36yU8nGe/1EuSY2aIL9VzjSNmV+PS2in6mB4Us9ru5ieKoxYx0MG6+/Eb3yyEa5KR95awoId11RMFEn1VqC0Suif87QXyalfmarvqs7/SUq5FVC7WgeDfdlmo25p+2y8xqYAE/glVzKHrLHUi/UU4jENjAw4= Received: by 10.36.227.64 with SMTP id z64mr3379298nzg; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 15sm5556502nzn.2005.07.17.14.22.00; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42DACC26.1050909@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:22:46 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4 References: <42DA2335.8040902@infoline.su> <42DAA0CF.9050302@gmail.com> <42DABA3A.4090003@infoline.su> <42DABD9D.7090709@gmail.com> <42DAC227.4080308@infoline.su> In-Reply-To: <42DAC227.4080308@infoline.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a9d17f87-ee27-46c8-95a3-3ba803e0bfc4 X-Archives-Hash: ffcadd3f6a4f0b1e3e68c7f9c5943e8f Alexander Kirillov wrote: >>>>>Kb layout switch in session unlock screen >>>>>doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 >>>>>When kde session locks on timeout >>>>>and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout >>>>>I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X >>>>>to get things back to normal. >>>>>This only happens when unlocking a session >>>>>and works well inside kde. >>>>>Any ideas? >>>> >>>>Sounds like it could be a security constraint. A locked screen >>>>shouldn't allow much more than password input. You can't input the >>>>password with the non-en layout? Too bad :-(. >>> >>>That doesn't sound optimistic. Does it? >>>The problem is it used to be working. >>>And the widget to switch kb layouts is still there. >>>But it doesn't work as expected. >>>And yep. The damn password is all ascii. Too bad. >>>I've just found this is not the only problem I'm having >>>with i18n in kde. For some reason I can't switch encodings in >>>kde editors either. >>>I should mention this happened after massive system cleanup. >>>Removed gnome and a bunch of multimedia soft I didn't need any more. >>>Followed by usual depcleans and revdep-rebuilds. >>>Didn't find any inconsistences in installed ebuilds though. >>>So the challenge still stands and all suggestions welcome. >> >>I wasn't aware that such a widget existed. If I knew how to make the >>widget appear and switch keyboard layouts then I would gladly test it >>for you on my end. > > > Thanks. Would be good if you have time for this. > I think you have to add an extra kb layout for the widget to show up > in session unlock screen. I'm using en_US and ru. > BTW what I said above of not being able to switch encodings in kde > editors isn't true. Early birds have big eyes they say:) > I probably didn't select proper encoding when saving non-en document. > So it's all question marks (3f hex). No wonder I couldn't get the > encoding right. > Thanks for your help, > Sasha > I think I can reproduce your problem. I used kcontrol to add another keyboard layout under "Regional & Accesibility" and the keyboard layout widget now appears when the the screen is locked. When I click the widget it's text changes to "err". It seems to be a bug in kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1 because the system tray widget works fine. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list