German keyboard support for gdm???

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 09:32:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 09:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 05:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Keyboard_layout does
> > > help, but I would stay away from a GUI to change the appropriate
> > > setting/s.
> > > 
> > > I once provided a short example how to use gsettings for the dconf crap,
> > > see
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2017-October/msg00110.html ,
> > > just use GDM insteadof evolution related keywords for the grep pipe.
> > 
> > Perhaps it isn't a dconf setting, but the config might be located in
> > /etc/gdm3/ , IOW take a look using an editor and/or consider to send a
> > request to a GNOME mailing list.
> 
> The dconf settings are much likely user related settings only, while GDM
> settings should be independent of a user's settings, so dconf unlikely
> is the correct config, more likely it is located in /etc/gdm/ or
> similar.

On FreeBSD, that would probably be /usr/local/etc/gdm or maybe
/usr/local/etc/gdm3 worth checking. Overriding an X (global!)
setting is still a bad idea for "the right behaviour" for GDM,
in my opinion... but well, that's Linux... ;-)



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