[gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

[gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

[Charles Trois]

Hello!

I have searched the Web about this, but didn't find an appropriate 
reference.

I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in 
xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in 
the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole, Kate, 
etc), but the KDE login panel (I don't know its name) ignores it, with 
the result that name and password have to be given in "qwerty", which is 
rather annoying.

I should be grateful to anyone who could explain what bit of configuring 
is required to make the program aware of the actual keymap.

Charles

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:50 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:

> I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in 
> xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in 
> the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole,
> Kate, etc), but the KDE login panel (I don't know its name) ignores it,
> with the result that name and password have to be given in "qwerty",
> which is rather annoying.

Does Control Centre -> System Admin -> Login Manager -> Appearance ->
Locale fix it?


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

[Charles Trois]

Neil Bothwick a écrit :
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:50 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:
> 
>> I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in 
>> xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in 
>> the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole,
>> Kate, etc), but the KDE login panel (I don't know its name) ignores it,
>> with the result that name and password have to be given in "qwerty",
>> which is rather annoying.
> 
> Does Control Centre -> System Admin -> Login Manager -> Appearance ->
> Locale fix it?
> 
No. One finds only US English there. French is not available.
It's the same with Control Centre -> Regional -> Country and Language. 
How could one make the system aware of French?

However, I have been confused, and I apologize for it: the panel I 
referred to does not seem to belong to KDE. Actually, I don't know how 
it came up, and I have not seen it again. Probably something in another 
X application.

There is something else about KDE: when xdm is added to rc-update, the 
real KDE login panel shows up at boot, and it understands azerty 
(contrary to what I had found, see above). But it does not recognize the 
password, replying "login failed", so that I have to resort to the 
console login, and do "startx".

This is serious: how can I fix it?

Charles
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:42 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:

> No. One finds only US English there. French is not available.
> It's the same with Control Centre -> Regional -> Country and Language. 
> How could one make the system aware of French?

It sounds like you don't have kde-i18n installed. Set LINGUAS in
make.conf before you emerge it.


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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

[Charles Trois]

Neil Bothwick a écrit :
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:42 +0200, Charles Trois wrote:
> 
>> How could one make the system aware of French?
> 
> It sounds like you don't have kde-i18n installed. Set LINGUAS in
> make.conf before you emerge it.
>

That was it: I did as you advised and that fixed everything.

Thank you very much.

Charles


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