bug#23198: GNOME: Execution of "gkbd-keyboard-display" failed: Command not found

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 02 Dec 2020 at 09:26, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 02.04.2016, 14:39 -0700 schrieb Chris Marusich:

>> I'm using GuixSD v0.10.0 with GNOME.  In GNOME, when you have enabled
>> a
>> second keyboard input (via "Settings" > "Region and Language" >
>> "Input
>> Sources"), if you click on "Show Keyboard Layout" from the keyboard
>> input selection drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the GUI,
>> the
>> following error is displayed on your screen:
>>
>> Execution of "gkbd-keyboard-display" failed: Command not found
>>
>> I'm guessing this is happening because that command is just not
>> present.
>> To fix it, do we just need to package up whatever it is that normally
>> provides that command?
> The bug you're describing concerns an old version of Guix System with
> an old version of GNOME.  While the interface has been changed, I
> believe, that this might have been fixed at some point between then and
> now.
> Using gnome-desktop-service on a fairly up-to-date Guix System,
> entering the "Region and Language" settings and clicking on the "eye"
> icon of an input source, I do see a keyboard layout being spawned even
> without that command being (visibly) provided.
>
> Does the same hold for you? Can this bug be closed?

I am closing this old bug [1], since it had been open in 2016, asked
more in 2020, and many things changed since then; especially after the
last core-updates merge.

If I miss something, feel free to reopen.

1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/23198>


Cheers,
simon