"Default" keyboard settings are seemingly incompatible with GNOME
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If I get rid of my xorg.conf, or create a clean one via dpkg-reconfigure, when I log into GNOME I get the old "X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard settings"[1] error. (This has supposedly been dropped from GNOME now.)
If I choose "Keep GNOME Settings", and then go to keyboard settings, I see "United Kingdom" as my layout.
If I click "Reset to Defaults", I get eight (!) copies of this dialogue about "Error activating XKB configuration", and then my layout is set to "uk" (sic).
I can then add the "United Kingdom" layout again and remove the "uk" one.
Something seems broken here!
[1] https:/
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 20 21:12:51 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
With "default" layout ("uk"):
alex@flash:~$ xprop -root | grep XKB NAMES_BACKUP( STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "uk", "", "" NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "", "grp:alts_toggle" gnome/periphera ls/keyboard/ kbd
_XKB_RULES_
_XKB_RULES_
alex@flash:~$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/
layouts = []
model =
options = []
overrideSettings = true
With "United Kingdom" layout:
alex@flash:~$ xprop -root | grep XKB NAMES_BACKUP( STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "uk", "", "" NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "", "grp:alts_toggle" gnome/periphera ls/keyboard/ kbd
_XKB_RULES_
_XKB_RULES_
alex@flash:~$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/
layouts = [gb]
model =
options = [grp grp:alts_toggle]
overrideSettings = true
So it seems that it's just the GConf settings that are different.