setting layout in keyboard layout tool doesn't work properly

[Philipp Schroeder]

svu from gnome.org advised me to create a separate issue (originally posted as
comment #5 to bug 21595)

I have problems with setting the keyboard layout with the 'System >
Preferences > Keyboard' tool (in my case, to 'Switzerland German'). I've tested
this only over the last few days, but on two different architectures (i386 and
amd64) and different releases (breezy-colony4 and breezy-preview). I'm not sure,
but I think the behaviour changed slightly in-between breezy-colony4 and
breezy-preview... could that be?

Anyway, setting your keyboard layout under 'System > Preferences > Keyboard' is
buggy.
Even if you changed the language successfully, the changes become ineffective on
logout - even though the setting in the menu still displays 'Switzerland German'
as a default.
In breezy-colony4, I could get the layout to change with some strange fiddling
about. I added the keyboard 'Switzerland German' a second time (don't ask, users
try strange things ;-). Then I mark the new "S.G." as 'default', "move it up" in
the ordering, and then delete the first 'S.G.' and then it works, i.e. the
layout is set to Swiss German for both console and gnome... until the next
logout, that is! Very annoying, indeed. :-(
In breezy-preview, the "adding twice trick" doesn't work any more. However, I
can now change the layout successfully (both console and gnome) with the
'keyboard indicator' tool in the gnome panel.

I don't know if these bugs are related or not, but I thought I'd mention it
anyway (they are all keyboard layout related problems I have): bug 19159 , bug
15142 and bug 17774 .

If anyone sees through all of this weird behaviour, please let me know! :-)

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21767.