Re: Doc: Correct and extend infos about LilyDev setup (issue 561360043 by address@hidden)

[Michael Käppler]

Am 30.01.2020 um 14:17 schrieb address@hidden:
> https://codereview.appspot.com/561360043/diff/565550050/Documentation/contributor/quick-start.itexi
> File Documentation/contributor/quick-start.itexi (right):
>
> https://codereview.appspot.com/561360043/diff/565550050/Documentation/contributor/quick-start.itexi#newcode208
> Documentation/contributor/quick-start.itexi:208: sufficient to choose
> number@tie{}71 (Generic, 105 keys).  After that,
> It seems it's not necessarily number 71. I would remove the number.
> keyboards are sorted alphabetically so "Generic, 105 keys" is enough.
Weird that this does show up differently. Yes, I will change this.
> Here's what I see:
>
> 65. Generic 101-key PC
> 66. Generic 102-key (Intl) PC
> 67. Generic 104-key PC
> 68. Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
>
> I've tried 68 but didn't seem to work. I had to go to the GUI settings
> for the layout, disable system setting and remove the english from the
> list, then adding new layouts worked fine. (Probably a bug in Debian or
> XFCE? Honestly, I don't have time nor will to investigate.)
I cannot reproduce this. I used the v2 release you prepared, loaded
it into VirtualBox 6.0.12, Host Windows 10.
After dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration, using number 68 as
keyboard type and rebooting
everything works fine.
What did not work?
> Anyway, to me the point is: doing trial and error in the GUI is way
> better than having to follow the same procedure with dpkg-reconfigure.
> So I'm not sure adding keyboard-configuration to LilyDev was a good
> idea. I thought that it would have saved the user from guessing the
> right layout but that's not the case, so there's no improvement over
> previous situation AFAICS.
I proposed this because the method described in the CG did not work (and
does
not work yet, too). If I add the "German" keyboard layout in the XFCE
settings panel, I have to
remove the English layout in order to make it work, and even then it
does not work for the login screen
and AFAIK generally outside the X environment.
So using dpkg-reconfigure seems to be a cleaner approach to me.

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