On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:44:37 -0400, Dan B. wrote: > What is it about gdm3 that undoes (or otherwise ignores) swapping of > Control and Caps Lock keys configured via /etc/default/keyboard?
AFAIK, GNOME (as others DEs) -and thus GDM3- follows its own way when it comes to configure the input devices... this is have been so since years. > I have XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps" in /etc/default/keyboard. That works > (the Control and Caps Lock keys are swapped) for virtual consoles and > for X11 displays started with "startx"--both without and with GNOME > installed. Yup. > However, when I start gdm3, then in the X11 display managed started by > gdm3, the keys are _not_ swapped any more. (That's both initially (when > gdm3 prompts for username and password) and later (with the GNOME > environment displayed).) Do you have GNOME installed? If so, have you tried to set this option from GNOME keyboard configuration? It has to be under layout → advanced settings or something similar. Another option, if GNOME is not installed, would be setting this manually using gconf or by tweaking the equivalent place/file... sorry, I don't know where the gdm3 settings for keyboard are defined. > Some Debian documentation or discussion says that the settings in > /etc/default/keyboard are supposed to work for both virtual consoles and > X11 (so one doesn't have to configure consoles and X11 separately). Mmm... > Why doesn't gdm3 follow that? I don't know, but as far as I can remember it has been always so, at least for the GNOME environment. > Does it sound like I have a configuration problem, or does gdm3 have a > bug (with respect to the intent that /etc/default/keyboard configures > both VCs and X11 displays)? I would try first to use the gnome keyboard configuration tool, if that makes no change in GDM3 the I would consider it can be a bug or something that can be reported, though I think this is a known issue... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jn3ubq$68l$5...@dough.gmane.org
