Re: keyboard layout and system locale

[Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>]

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2018-03-19 14:23 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>:

> Hello Catonano
>
> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2018-03-18 18:58 GMT+01:00 Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>:
> >
> >  2018-03-17 16:01 GMT+01:00 Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>:
> >
> >  Hello Catonano
> >
> >  Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >  > Can I set up the keyboard layout and my system locale (Italian) for
> my Gnome desktop in my conf.scm file ?
> >  >
> >  > Otherwise I have to click around in every throaway virtual machine I
> create in order to be able to use the desktop environment
> >  >
> >  > Thanks
> >
> >  To set the keyboard layout in my config.scm I replaced %desktop-services
> >  with this:
> >
> >  (modify-services %desktop-services
> >  (slim-service-type config =>
> >  (slim-configuration
> >  (inherit config)
> >  (startx (xorg-start-command
> >  #:configuration-file
> >  (xorg-configuration-file
> >  ;; Setup X to use a swiss german keyboard layout.
> >  #:extra-config
> >  '("Section \"InputClass\"
> >  Identifier \"keyboard-all\"
> >  Option \"XkbLayout\" \"ch\" ; <~ replace \"ch\" with \"it\"
> >
> >  Ok, the semicolon is illegal Xorg syntax and made the server crash !!
>
> I am sorry.  I meant to write a comment to explain which entry you
> should replace and forgot that my "comment" was still inside the
> string.  Everything after and including the semicolon is not supposed to
> be there.  I apologise for this silly mistake.
>

No need to apologize, I was not blaming you
Sorry if that came out the wrong way !



> I wrote an example config (based on the one you posted) and verified
> that it works both with `guix system vm-image' and `guix system init'
> (after modifying the target hard disk) and that the X server does not
> crash:
>
> Unfortunately GNOME overrides the system wide keyboard settings.  So
> this only addresses your initial concern if you use Xfce.
>

That's something ;-)

For now I used the VMs to open 2 bugs related to Gnome.
There's an "ibus" thing not working
And a control panel crashing

Didn't test your new file yet, I'll let you know !!

Thanks !

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