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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #986322
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 986322

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Chascon (chascone) wrote : Re: Can't change layout using Unity "applet" nor Gnome Control Center --Precise upgrade

The way I see it, there are at least two issues here.

1) The issue of not being able to change a layout within a session from the Unity "applet", /etc/default/keyboard not keeping sync with applet --I am supposing it is supposed to keep in sync.

2) And the issue of /etc/default/keyboard not keeping in sync with selections taken in Keyboard Layout, which explains why desktop sessions (X) revert to previous settings when logging in.

/etc/default/keyboard and~/.dmrc seem to want to do their own things, regardless of what other utilities want.

There might be a third, since I've tried to use dpkg-reconfigure to configure what X uses. The issue of any layout chosen from dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration not sticking, /etc/default/keyboard and/or ~/.dmrc not keeping sync with dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration.