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title: "GDM keyboard layout revisited"
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date: 2016-08-07 01:38:56 +0200
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So, I wanted to upgrade Firefox on my FreeBSD 10 workstation,
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and this in turn caused some supporting libraries to be upgraded,
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and this broke all sorts of things again.
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Initially gdm just segfaulted. After more manual upgrades,
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it turned out to work again, except that GDM had lost all localization,
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and in particular got the wrong keymap for the login screen.
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It appears that gdm_lang is no longer honored (despite still being
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mentioned in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm): you now need to set gdm's
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locale in /usr/local/etc/gdm/locale.conf. Also note that unlike
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other user-editable configuration files, this one is overwritten
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each time gdm is reinstalled.
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