[27025] in Athena Bugs
Re: GNOME keyboard layouts don't work on Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Wed Dec 20 10:48:12 2006
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:47:37 -0500
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On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:44 PM, You (Yoyo) Zhou wrote:
> On Solaris Athena, the GNOME control center keyboard applet (gnome-
> keyboard-properties) is broken. Under 'Layouts', one cannot add
> layouts without removing U.S. English first, and changing layouts
> e.g. to Dvorak has no effect. Is the reason for this known?
Hi.
Thanks for your bug report. gnome-keyboard-properties is indeed
broken on Solaris, because it relies on the XKEYBOARD extension
to the X server, which is disabled by default in the Sun X server.
Unfortunately, enabling the extension causes other problems, so
I am afraid there is currently not much we can do about this bug.
Robert Basch
Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
Information Services & Technology
