keyboard layout always switching US layout after login with a special situation

[Attila Hammer]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

Dear Developers,

I hope I choosed right package.
I see a special problem with default installation is not happened, I compared Lucid and Mawerick working method.
My lucid system I using following keyboard layouts, US and Hungarian. Because I using Orca Screen Reader, I move top with US keyboard layout, because if I switch US or Hu keyboard layout dinamicaly, Orca keystrokes phisical place is equals both two keyboard layouts if US keyboard layout have top of the keyboard layouts list.

When I do same configuration with Maverick after installation (add US layout with System>Preferences>Keyboard/layouts page) and using move to top button, after logout and logging in again, the US keyboard layout is always the default keyboard layout. This is the problem, because my Lucid system doesn't producing this bug.
My home directory of course have a .dmrc file with have following lines if I using hungarian locale:

[Desktop]
Language=hu_HU.utf8
Layout=hu

If I remove the US keyboard layout the list or move to top with Hungarian keyboard layout, of course the default keyboard layout after login is hungarian, but if I choosing this step, Orca laptop keystrokes is different. For example:
If I using english keyboard layout, the sayall document command is Capslock+;.
If I using hungarian keyboard layout, the sayall document command is Capslock+, keystroke, because in hungarian keyboard layout the AltGR, is writing ; character. My Lucid system if I using hungarian layout or english layout, the sayall document command is equals phisical place (Capslock+; or capslock+é if I using hungarian keyboard layout but english keyboard layout is have top of the list my Lucid system).

Possible fix this problem?

The reproducation steps is very easy:
If you have an installed Maverick system, do following steps:
1. Choose the system>preferences>keyboard preference tool.
2. Navigate the layouts page, and add for example the US keyboard layout.
3. Click the move up button if you choosed the US layout with the layouts list.
4. Logout, and login again. If you are lucky, the keyboard indicator shows the default keyboard is US.

Attila

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 7 06:51:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=hu_HU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon

[Attila Hammer (hammera)]

I tryed applying hungarian keyboard layout with systemwide. After I restart my system and logged in, the keyboard indicator shows the keyboard layout is hungarian, but not real (hungarian radiobutton is selected automaticaly but not affected).

Attila

[Attila Hammer (hammera)]

Sorry, I wroted wrong the second comment with the selected keyboard layout radio button if the US keyboard layout is top of the keyboard layout list. The always default selected keyboard layout radio button is US in Maverick, need manual switching the hungarian keyboard layout after login.

Attila

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Attila Hammer (hammera)]

Hy,

I see this problem too in Oneiric.
If the US keyboard layout have in top of the list, after login always
switch keyboard layout with US keyboard layout.

Attila

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue described there was due to gdm, it should be fixed in new installs, closing the bug that's not a gsd issue and a duplicate