Edubuntu 11.10: Unity menu don't show in thin client

[Stéphane Graber]

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On 11/26/2011 03:21 PM, Zied ALAYA wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Stéphane Graber
> <stgraber at ubuntu.com <mailto:stgraber at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
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> On 11/24/2011 07:31 PM, Zied ALAYA wrote:
>> Great it works ! one more problem to solve and it will rock :)
>> 
>> thin clients have azerty keyboard, but applications consider it
>> as qwerty ! even when I change keybord layout from
>> administration panel it did not work.
>> 
>> what should we do ?
>> 
>> Regards Zied ALAYA
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> Add: XKBLAYOUT=fr
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> to your lts.conf, this should do the trick.
> 
> 
> - -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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> 
> Thanks a lot Stéphane. that solved 50% of the problem ! indeed,
> users need some times to write with arabic letters. So they need to
> change keybord layout. But the graphic utility to change  was
> impossible to run (for thin client and the same for the server): no
> think appear.
> 
> Do we miss some thing ? Or should I fill a bug with that ?
> 
> The same problem was with the graphic utility to administrate users
> (but here we can prepare some script to make it easy for
> teachers). -- Cordialement Zied ALAYA LoCo Contact de Ubuntu-tn 
> http://zied-alaya.blogspot.com <http://zied-alaya.blogspot.com/>


Hmm, it seems weird that the keyboard switcher doesn't work on LTSP
though I haven't tested it myself. I'll poke someone next week to
check on a test LTSP setup and see where the problem is exactly
(probably a bug in the indicator).

As a workaround for now, you could create some launcher for your
users, one starting: setxkbmap -layout fr
and the other: setxkbmap -layout ara -variant azerty

(that's assuming you want the azerty keyboard for arabic input)

- -- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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