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Bug 63263 - Feature Request: The ability to change keymaps
Feature Request: The ability to change keymaps
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307926
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.0.98
Other All
: Low enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
: 57363 100719 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 57363
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-29 02:40 UTC by Sameer Morar
Modified: 2006-01-13 00:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sameer Morar 2001-10-29 02:40:44 UTC 
The ability to change keymaps from the login panel is a necessary feature,
so that different users of the same machine that use different keymaps can
log in. (eg. dvorak vs querty keymap users :)
Comment 1 Trevor Curtis 2002-04-01 15:02:04 UTC 
Has anyone had a chance to look into this?
Comment 2 David Kennedy 2002-12-09 14:45:19 UTC 
*** Bug 100719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 mkgnu 2002-12-12 03:51:28 UTC 
The implementation for this would be calling loadkeys  and setxkbmap
with the keymap as a param to switch between maps.

From my .bashrc file; this is how I switch between dvorak and qwerty.


asdf()
{
loadkeys dvorak
setxkbmap dvorak
}

aoeu()
{
loadkeys us
setxkbmap us
}


Without the option to switch a keymap, one cannot even login. The
default keymap specified in the XF86Config file is currently used by gdm.
Comment 4 Brian Cameron 2005-01-24 23:35:05 UTC 
*** Bug 57363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Brian Cameron 2006-01-12 23:29:39 UTC 
I think this is a very low-priority bug.  As devcore@freekuk.com points out, it is fairly simple to set the default keymap used your a user's session.  The keyboard-selector applet can be used to do this as well.  

I'm not sure that there is much value in GDM allowing the user to switch to a different keyboard just to enter their username and password.  While it might be a bit inconvenient to use an unfamiliar keyboard to do this, there typically isn't that much typing involved.  Navigating some menu (or whatever mechanism you could provide to switch the keyboard) would probably take longer than just going ahead and typing the username/password with the default keyboard mapping.

However, if someone felt strongly that this added value to them and wanted to make it possible to switch keyboard layout for the login screen, then I would accept the patch.
Comment 6 Brian Cameron 2006-01-13 00:12:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307926 ***