https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c2 --- Comment #2 from Atri Bhattacharya 2013-03-05 10:52:47 UTC --- Coolo, adding yast2-country to the live-cd should fix this keyboard layout problem. If you think it is okay to add this to the LiveCD at this stage please look at https://github.com/openSUSE/patterns/pull/28 @Carlos Indeed, if you have suggestions about new software, etc. please open a bug report against Live Medium and assign it to me. We will have a look at it for inclusion for the next version of openSUSE (it's too late for 12.3 already, and I do believe we have enough essential software considering it is our first release of a rescue cd, don't you? ;) ). Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c4 --- Comment #4 from Carlos Robinson 2013-03-06 01:03:46 UTC --- I'm right now using the rescue system to type this. There is a language and keyboard selection at the grub(?) boot screen, which works there. But the selection is not carried on when the system is finally booted. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c6 --- Comment #6 from Carlos Robinson 2013-03-06 01:41:09 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5)

Hi Carlos! You should be able to change language at the boot menu: press F2 when you see the menu with entries "openSUSE 12.3 Live", "Failsafe - openSUSE 12.3", etc., and you will see a menu of locales pop-up; select your preferred language, this will automatically change adapt the keyboard layout to the corresponding locale. You can also change the keyboard layout independently from the same menu.

This is exactly what I have done - see #4 - and did not work. It works only inside the boot menu.

The keyboard layout set at the boot menu should be carried over to the autologged in user (I just checked that it does).

It was not carried in when I tried 5 minutes ago. Unless the modified image behaves differently from the one I have (openSUSE-12.3-Rescue-CD-Build0094-x86_64.iso). I'll download the new image tomorrow and try again - no, sorry, no new image available, just looked at http://software.opensuse.org/developer/en I'm using the root user to login, as the default user can not login to xfce does not work, in case that does a difference.

We have now added the YaST module to the LiveCD that does this, so it should be possible even after login to change keyboard layouts, system language, etc. Please let me know if this works for you.

I'll try that when the image is published. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c8 --- Comment #8 from Carlos Robinson 2013-03-22 21:48:41 UTC --- Tests. At boot menu, choose "F2" to change Language. Select Spanish. Booter switches to Spanish immediately in texts and keyboard. Proceeds to boot system, systems autologins to XFCE with Spanish texts and keyboard. Log out, change language to English in login window. Login. Language changes to English, keyboard remains in Spanish. That is correct behaviour. Different test. At boot menu, choose "F2" to change Language. Leave "English" as language, but at the keyboard entry switch to "Spanish". The grub menu remains in English, and the edit window accepts Spanish keyboard entries. So far, good. However, when system proceeds with boot, language is English (correct) and keyboard is English (incorrect). Yast keyboard module fails to change to Spanish keyboard, either as user or as root. It displays the selected keyboard as Spanish, but it does not work. In fact, even the test line in yast remains with USA keyboard. Tested both as user and as root. XFCE setting manager keyboard module fails to activate Spanish keyboard. In fact, entering the module shows English as the selected keyboard. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c10 Atri Bhattacharya changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Component|Live Medium |Live Medium Version|Final |13.1 Milestone 4 AssignedTo|badshah400@gmail.com |coolo@suse.com Product|openSUSE 12.3 |openSUSE Factory --- Comment #10 from Atri Bhattacharya 2013-08-11 18:52:12 UTC --- Hi Carlos! I am trying to fix this for 13.1. Here are my comments based on what I have tested so far (with 13.1 Milestone 4). (In reply to comment #8)

Tests.

At boot menu, choose "F2" to change Language. Select Spanish. Booter switches to Spanish immediately in texts and keyboard. Proceeds to boot system, systems autologins to XFCE with Spanish texts and keyboard. Log out, change language to English in login window. Login. Language changes to English, keyboard remains in Spanish.

That is correct behaviour.

Different test.

At boot menu, choose "F2" to change Language. Leave "English" as language, but at the keyboard entry switch to "Spanish". The grub menu remains in English, and the edit window accepts Spanish keyboard entries. So far, good.

However, when system proceeds with boot, language is English (correct) and keyboard is English (incorrect).

This is the same behaviour that happens for all the live media, including GNOME and KDE live USB images. It isn't limited to the Rescue CD. I suggest opening a new bug for this (if it doesn't already exist) against the component "Live Medium".

Yast keyboard module fails to change to Spanish keyboard, either as user or as root. It displays the selected keyboard as Spanish, but it does not work. In fact, even the test line in yast remains with USA keyboard. Tested both as user and as root.

We have now added yast2-x11 that installs xkbctrl and I have now tested that with YaST's Keyboard Layout module, it is now possible to change the default layout of the keyboard to any desired. I hope that helps improve the situation over that on the 12.3 Rescue CD.

XFCE setting manager keyboard module fails to activate Spanish keyboard. In fact, entering the module shows English as the selected keyboard.

This is an (probably, upstream) issue that I will pursue and try to get resolved in time for 13.1. I see that in the XFCE settings manager, you can add a new keyboard layout such as Spanish and delete the other layout (US or whatever was there on the list by default). Then the keyboard indeed behaves like the Spanish keyboard. Seems to me that it does not work when there are more than 1 layouts added to this list. I am also asking Guido for more info on this; he really is the father of all things XFCE on openSUSE ;) Guido, any suggestions on this last issue? Hope that helps, Carlos. Please feel free to email me about other suggestions you might have on the Rescue CD. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c Alberto Planas Dominguez changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status Whiteboard| | GOLD -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395#c13 --- Comment #13 from Carlos Robinson 2013-11-04 23:35:56 UTC --- I'm just now testing 13.1RC2. I selected on the boot screen English (US) as language and Spanish as keyboard. This setting does not carry to the booted system, the keyboard remain USA. However, I can change the keyboard definition inside XFCE, and the session config survives a reboot, because of the persistent filesystem feature of the USB image. It is not a global setting, though. The text consoles, both for user "linux" and root, remain with USA keyboard. However, setting the keyboard in YaST carries. Trying reboot... yes, it survives. So, the initial problem I reported for 12.3 remains, but 13.1 has a working bypass :-) (if the persistent filesystem allows installation of extra packages, that would be marvelous (I have not tried)) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807395 Atri Bhattacharya changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |NORESPONSE --- Comment #15 from Atri Bhattacharya --- Closing as NORESPONSE for now. Feel free to reopen if issue persists on 13.2 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.