[LAU] AVL2018 first impressions

[Dale Powell]

Sorry Ralph, I have to hit Reply All to reply to the list and I know you don't like that, but otherwise Hotmail replies to you in isolation and not the list!

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From: Linux-audio-user <linux-audio-user-bounces at lists.linuxaudio.org> on behalf of Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
Sent: 22 July 2018 15:49
To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] AVL2018 first impressions

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:41:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 14:48:59 +0000, Dale Powell wrote:
>>My root password works fine when issuing commands (such as apt update)
>>in the terminal but it does not accept it as being the correct
>>password when trying the GUI settings features such as those found in
>>AV Linux Assistant (also tried the default one from the manual and
>>that doesn't work either.) Tried at least 20 times!
>
>If you write a text using a GUI app and you use the keys used for your
>password, are the correct letters displayed? If not perhaps running
>
>  sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
>  shutdown --reboot now
>
>does solve the issue, or as a temporarily workaround remember the wrong
>letters and type those as your password.
>
>A Linux install could have a system wide setting for the keyboard
>layout and at least another for a desktop environment's user session.
>
>I neither use a desktop environment, nor AVL, but it's a known issue,
>that the user-friendliness of desktop environments used on Debian based
>distros has got a tendency to go berserk.
>
>Consider to read the complete thread:
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2018-July/011256.html
>https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2018-July/thread.html

I suspect the dpkg-reconfigure hint won't work for you. There must be a
setting for your user session, that does not require a password, to
change the keyboard layout for the user session. Perhaps the log in
screen does provide a language setting. Or how about
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2013/11/how-to-configure-keyboard-layouts-in-xfce-cinnamon-mate.html

<http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2013/11/how-to-configure-keyboard-layouts-in-xfce-cinnamon-mate.html>

<http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2013/11/how-to-configure-keyboard-layouts-in-xfce-cinnamon-mate.html>
I reconfigured the keyboard layout, that was in the Settings at least, but not the Locale for the other settings (and would have automatically set this if it asked during the install phase.)

As the keys gives the right result in xfce4-terminal I'm pretty sure the keys were working with the characters I expected, it would be rather weird for one window to use one charset and another window a different one when I have deleted the original charset so only one exists for the keyboard I actually have....

Dale.

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