| Summary: | Choosing Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, and other keyboard layouts in KDE neon gitunstable installer makes system not installable | ||
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| Product: | [KDE Neon] neon | Reporter: | RussianNeuroMancer <russianneuromancer> |
| Component: | Live/Install images | Assignee: | Neon Bugs <neon-bugs> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | altwazar, carlosd.kde, herzenschein, jr, kde, neon-bugs, sh.yaron, sitter |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | triaged |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
RussianNeuroMancer
2018-07-16 06:13:37 UTC
Problem persists in recent 20.04 release (neon-user-20200810-1423 image). This problem persists in neon-user-20231221-0716.iso 's installer my story: boot, run the installer, see what happens when switching to hebrew as installer language (the installer doesn't switch to an RTL layout) continue to select keyborad layout, I'm suggested with Hebrew. cant type English username, go to system settings, adds layout us installation done, reboot, can't login. no language selector, pulling hairs out, sees that the password text field layout is RTL open virtual keyboard and login. go to system settings, adds layout us, set as first layout, reboot. reboot, can't login. no language selector, pulling hairs out, sees that the password text field layout is RTL open virtual keyboard and login. remembers that Linux uses xkb and kde adds something(like layouts) on top of it. go to archwiki, set xkb to "us,il" reboot, success!!! not something a beginner would know, and still frustrating to me not my area of knowledge but am willing to learn as multi language support is important. which parts of the stack are needed to be installed on the live image to be able to support multiple keyboard layouts and so forth?? we already package fcitx5, fcitx5-qt, fcitx-qt5 but at present they are not pre-installed. should neon be providing keyboard layout defaults like are detailed in the arch wiki ?? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console/Keyboard_configuration @Carlos De Maine You only need the set of xkb packages, which are already on the image and installed for the live environment and installed environment. The installer should just not remove the US language, when picking non-English layouts. Maybe some handling should be included for non-qwerty layouts And I prefer it if it keeps US as the primary/first xkb language. As far as I know, this has consequences when working with non-graphical virtual console too (ctrl+alt+?shift?+f1-f??). Currently, changing the layout in the installer makes the installer break. Fixing English in the Live-CD environment with the KDE settings applet, won't prevent the installer from removing US on the installed to HDD version, which means you can't login with the keyboard, if the password is in English. The login virtual keyboard is stuck in only English, so I managed to log-in, which highlights another bug... From a quick search, I don't thing fcitx5 effects the non-graphical virtual console, and that's still something the user could do later Avihay, let me try and explain it in another way: The user should ALWAYS have the option to write in English somehow; changing the layout in an irreversible way may block the next installation steps as the username must be lowercase Latin letters (not to mention password, hostname, etc.). |