[27126] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.41: keyboard layout switching doesn't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Fri Oct 5 00:19:20 2007
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:18:49 -0400
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On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:47 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Going to gnome-control-center, Keyboard, and selecting
> Dvorak->Swedish
> does not give a dvorak keyboard layout. Additionally, the UI
> seems busted, in that you can't add more than one layout
> to the list of layouts (the "add" button grays out).
> It's also a bit odd that there is not a US/ANSI/English
> Dvorak layout.
>
> But fundamentally, it just doesn't work.
Hi.
Thanks for your bug report, and sorry for the delay in
responding.
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 Sun's X server.
Unfortunately, enabling that extension causes other
problems, so there is not much we can do about this.
Bob
