Re: keyboard layout and system locale

[Catonano]

2018-03-19 14:38 GMT+01:00 ng0 <address@hidden>:

Chris Marusich transcribed 1.7K bytes:
> Catonano <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Can I set up the keyboard layout and my system locale (Italian) for my
> > Gnome desktop in my conf.scm file ?
> >
> > Otherwise I have to click around in every throaway virtual machine I create
> > in order to be able to use the desktop environment
>
> You may also be interested in the console-keymap-service, as mentioned
> in (guix) Base Services.  It seems related.  Also, see section (guix)
> Preparing for Installation, which briefly mentions "Keyboard Layout". I
> found these by searching the index of the Guix manual for words like
> "keymap" and "keyboard".
>
> I'm afraid I don't have any useful advice regarding the slim-related
> problems you're having, though.

I can be helpful: Catonano is hitting this "bug":
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26234

It's a lack of features in SLIM.

But it only affects Gnome !

Xfce works gets configured !

Do they manage the session differently ?

Anyway, thank you people.