Keyboard situation - Non-US users dead in water?

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

You wrote:

> What happened to me couple of times is that I use by default "us" 
> keyboard, but every now and then I would send an email in Cyrillic and I 
> would forget to switch back to "us" mapping. Then screen saver would 
> turn on and I would try to log in. Unfortunately, my! keyboard mapping 
> is in Cyrillic at that moment and password has to be typed in "us" 
> mapping. In FC4 and FC3 I would just hit my magic keyboard combination 
> and I would go back to "us" mapping. But this is not an option anymore 
> in keyboard settings. It is a bit annoying to get locked out of the 
> system when screen saver turns on.

Well, this is a side-effect of brokenness in libxclavier. It is 
supposedly fixed upstream,so we should see non-useless keyboard options, 
including those needed to switch between layouts, in the final gnome 
release.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
McGill University WSG

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