From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 40273@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:20:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8s8k348.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200403003816.oywdf75mj7yjzygj@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Fri, 3 Apr 2020 02:38:16 +0200")
Hi,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:45:01AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The attached patch fixes that. I’ve confirmed that it works as intended
>> in Xorg and in the console
>
> Thank you, it works fine, even for entering the LUKS passphrase after
> GRUB in the Linux kernel. Only GRUB uses U.S. QWERTY layout.
OK.
>> (I’m not sure it works in GDM, but it
>> definitely works in an xterm in ratpoison, for instance.)
>
> GDM retains my U.S. English layout even after herd stop xorg-server
That’s a regression. Localed was added exactly one year ago to fix this
problem in commit 607fcc75404e2b1fc74affcf372b4a6a789ac55e. I’ve spent
a couple of hours investigating and I don’t know why it doesn’t work,
especially since it works fine once logged in in GNOME (it’s the same
code, GNOME Shell).
>> I was wondering whether to push the patch as-is or to require people to
>> write:
>>
>> (keyboard-layout '("ar" "fr") …)
>>
>> instead. Maybe it’s OK to leave the comma here.
>
> Lists seem more consistent with the Scheme syntax.
OTOH, it has the potential of breaking things here and there; also, I’d
rather stay close to XKB.
If that’s fine with you, I propose applying that patch and adding a
sentence in “Keyboard Layout” to document that.
>> However, I noticed that this doesn’t work in GRUB. Actually, even
>> (keyboard-layout "fr") doesn’t work in GRUB (at the command line after
>> the boot menu), which seems like a regression.
>
> I suppose on GRUB using at_keyboard it worked in the past?
>
> For me there’s no regression because keyboard layouts never worked
> (using usb keyboard rather than at keyboard), see
> <https://issues.guix.info/issue/35585#9>.
Damn it, so it’s this ‘terminal_input’ directive that broke it?
> f5961dd5854cec1ed9a41365836d63aa15256642 for usb keyboard was a bad
> commit (passphrase input was QWERTY, back then usb keyboard did not
> work at all in GRUB menu).
That has always been a problem, see
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39288>.
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-28 13:42 bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-28 19:45 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 10:44 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-30 11:35 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 17:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-30 17:31 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-31 15:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-31 16:55 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-01 20:33 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-02 6:24 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-02 9:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-03 0:38 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 1:11 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 13:31 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 13:59 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-03 15:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-04-03 15:56 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-05 14:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-05 20:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-05 21:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-29 15:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-29 17:16 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-29 17:53 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 10:39 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-30 12:39 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-03-31 15:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-01 12:49 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-03-31 15:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-01 12:52 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-02 10:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-02 11:40 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-06 7:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-06 13:14 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-07 9:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-07 17:14 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-04-02 23:27 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-03 23:17 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-08 7:20 ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-08 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-08 21:11 ` Bengt Richter
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