[27127] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.41: keyboard layout switching doesn't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Oct 5 00:20:57 2007
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:20:38 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 5 Oct 2007
at 00:18:49 -0400 in <06C892E5-0F3D-4C0E-882D-703711EB7979@mit.edu>:
> 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.
Can we disable the program then, or otherwise indicate that
it does not work? The current state is particularly confusing
to users.
--jhawk
