No "nodeadkeys" after login

[Michael Bienia]

Binary package hint: gdm

gdm 2.27.4-0ubuntu5 (karmic)

I'm not sure if it's gdm fault, but given the keyboard layout problems after login in the past, I assume so.
My keyboard configuration in /etc/default/console-setup is:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS="compose:menu"
I've also the same configured in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Yet after auto-login to gnome I only get a german layout with deadkeys. Using gnome-keyboard-properties I can reset it to my configured layout but it's needs to be done after every login once.
For some reason "compose:menu" seems to be set correctly at login.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, do you get the issue if you don't use autologin but enter your login and password rather?

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

I've checked this right now (de-activated auto-login and restarted gdm) and the same happens after login: I've got a german keyboard but with dead keys. Reseting the layout in gnome-keyboard-properties brings back the nodeadkeys variant.
This is cumbersome as I use the terminal much and ~ is part of the dead keys.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

On my laptop (i386) I don't see this problem (I get a german keyboard layout with no dead keys after login). Doing a quick compare of some config files (/etc/default/console-setup and /etc/X11/xorg.conf) don't show any difference in the keyboard layout configuration.
My desktop is amd64 and when looking at bug #416917 an other amd64 seems to have a similar problem.

Any hints how to figure out why my laptop (i386) doesn't show this problem while my desktop (amd64) shows it are highly welcome.

[Michael Bienia (geser)]

My notebook show this bug now too :(