Bug#921457: GDM should accept all keyboard layouts to prevent confusing behaviour

Iiro Laiho news at iirolaiho.net
Tue Feb 5 18:41:04 GMT 2019


Package: gdm3
Version: 3.30.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

If the user or system default keyboard layout is set to one of those in 
evdev.extras.xml, GDM will refuse to use it and fall back to something 
else. That can confuse the user and/or prevent the entry of password.

Upstream bug report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/433
Upstream fixing commit: 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/commit/564e26c03a2617bc66dcf23232cbaa98d41d808c

Diff of the commit:

diff --git a/data/dconf/defaults/00-upstream-settings b/data/dconf/defaults/00-upstream-settings
index 0f418995..603903e6 100644
--- a/data/dconf/defaults/00-upstream-settings
+++ b/data/dconf/defaults/00-upstream-settings
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
  [org/gnome/desktop/session]
  session-name='gnome-login'
  
-[org/gnome/desktop/input-sources]
-show-all-sources=true
-
  [org/gnome/desktop/a11y]
  always-show-universal-access-status=true



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