On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:29 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> One non trivial change for Fedora would be moving the kbd
> config away from xorg.conf. Both Gnome and KDE can already
> override the server settings through XKB. The various
> display managers, I'm afraid, don't do anything by default.
> Same with startx.
This will change soon for gdm, I think. The gdm rewrite will make it
possible to have a keyboard layout selector on the login screen, very
similar to what you have inside the session. At least that is one of the
goals.
Why is that functionality being added to a desktop manager? What exactly
is the definition for a desktop manager these days? I've always found
the name "desktop manager" to be a bit misleading. In my mind, I've
always thought of it as just a user login system (determining the user
for a session). Are desktop managers supposed to handle more than that?
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Richi Plana