Re: System wide keyboard configuration not working on GNOME

Alkis, I forget to mention. It’s working perfectly in LDM.

Its definitely something in GNOME.

I was hoping someone has the same issue.

Thanks,

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> On 6 Aug 2019, at 17:05, Alkis Georgopoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Test it in the LDM login screen, while typing the username.
> If it works there correctly if means the system and LTSP are properly configured.
> If then it doesn't work inside GNOME, then GNOME doesn't respect the Xorg defaults, in which case you'd file a bug report against GNOME.
> 
> 
>> On 8/6/19 7:20 PM, Vinícius Ferrão via Ltsp-discuss wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have an LTSP server with Ubuntu 18.04, and I can't set a global keyboard setting to all users for the GUI (running the default GNOME installation).
>> The physical machine have a cancerogenous brazilian ABNT2 keyboard that appears to be configured correctly:
>> root@gilneas:/# cat /etc/default/keyboard
>> # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
>> # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
>> XKBMODEL="pc105"
>> XKBLAYOUT="br"
>> XKBVARIANT=""
>> XKBOPTIONS=""
>> BACKSPACE="guess"
>> root@gilneas:/# grep -v \# /etc/locale.gen
>> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
>> Already tried with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and regenerated the locates with locale-gen --purge. But nothing works, GNOME does not honor the configurations and selects English (US) as the default keyboard.
>> This settings used to work on previous Ubuntu LTS versions: 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04; are all working accordingly. But not on 18.04.
>> I’m not sure if lts.conf is still relevant but it’s attached at the end of the message to reduce clutter.
>> Thanks,
>> Vinicius.
>> root@gilneas:~# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/amd64/lts.conf
>> # This file is served via TFTP from /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/<arch>/lts.conf
>> # when using the default NBD setup.
>> # If using NFS, it goes in /opt/ltsp/<arch>/etc/lts.conf.
>> # A list of directives is available at http://manpages.ubuntu.com/lts.conf
>> # or your installed lts.conf man page.
>> # Lines starting with '#' are comments.
>> # Avoid empty [Sections] as they're considered syntax errors.
>> # This section applies to all clients and is overriden by the other sections.
>> [Default]
>> # For troubleshooting, the following open a local console with Alt+Ctrl+F2.
>> #SCREEN_02=shell
>> #SCREEN_07=ldm
>> # Don't encrypt X traffic. Gives much faster graphics at a security cost.
>> LDM_DIRECTX=True
>> # Force all clients to a specific resolution.
>> #XRANDR_MODE_0=1024x768
>> #XRANDR_RATE_0=85
>> # If the default 16bit color mode is giving you problems on thin clients:
>> #X_SMART_COLOR_DEPTH=False
>> # Separate fat clients from thin clients based on their RAM.
>> #FAT_RAM_THRESHOLD=400
>> # Use any local swap partitions on the clients.
>> USE_LOCAL_SWAP=True
>> # Provide a "Login as Guest" button, which uses LDM_USERNAME/LDM_PASSWORD.
>> #LDM_GUESTLOGIN=True
>> # Automatically login clients with the specified LDM_USERNAME/LDM_PASSWORD.
>> #LDM_AUTOLOGIN=True
>> # Some other frequently used directives, described in the lts.conf manpage.
>> # For really low RAM clients, disable SOUND, LOCAL_APPS and LOCALDEV.
>> #SOUND=False
>> #VOLUME=50
>> #LOCAL_APPS=False
>> #LOCAL_APPS_EXTRAMOUNTS=/srv
>> #LOCALDEV=False
>> #LOCALDEV_DENY_INTERNAL_DISKS=False
>> #FSTAB_1="server:/home    /home           nfs     defaults,nolock 0       0"
>> #XSERVER=vesa
>> #X_BLANKING=0
>> #X_NUMLOCK=True
>> #XKBLAYOUT="us,gr"
>> #XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
>> #LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION=True
>> #LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION_PROMPT=True
>> #LDM_PRINTER_DEFAULT="psc-1310-series"
>> # Settings added for LIG
>> # Locale and Keyboard
>> LOCALE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
>> XKBLAYOUT="br"
>> XKBMODEL="pc105"
>> # Limit one login
>> LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION=True
>> # Compression
>> NETWORK_COMPRESSION=True
>> # NTP
>> TIMESERVER=time.cc.if.ufrj.br
>> # /home on the server
>> FSTAB_1="server:/home    /home           nfs     defaults,nolock 0       0"
>> # You can define sections to be included later on with "LIKE" directives.
>> [OLD_MONITOR]
>> # The following directives are useful in cases where the driver can't detect
>> # the (possibly old CRT) monitor timings and only offers low resolutions.
>> # Consult your monitor manual for the correct values, those are for 1024x768.
>> X_HORZSYNC=30.0-88.0
>> X_VERTREFRESH=50.0-88.0
>> # You can specify directives per client with MAC address (or IP or hostname)
>> # based sections.
>> # One way to get their MAC addresses is to run `arp -n` when they're at LDM.
>> #[A1:B1:C2:D4:E5:F6]
>> #HOSTNAME=pc01
>> #LDM_USERNAME=user01
>> #LDM_PASSWORD=pass01
>> #LTSP_FATCLIENT=False
>> # Include another section.
>> #LIKE=OLD_MONITOR
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