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  1. Bug #196277
  2. Comment #108

Comment 108 for bug 196277

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote : Re: [hardy] keyboard layout switching shortcut doesn't work after reboot

Bryce, it looks to me that the issue that you are referring to
is different from the issue that the GUI layout settings are not enabled
when the user has activated the autologon feature.

When GNOME starts, libgnomekdb makes a decision
whether to use the system layout settings (found in /etc/X11/xorg.conf),
or use the user-configured layout settings (found in gconf).

The latter is the typical choice, and only when gconf settings are not provided,
libgnomekdb ends up using the system (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) as last resort ("shortcut does not work after reboot").

What it looks to me is that during autologin, libgnomekdb fails to read the gconf entries (maybe gconf is started a bit later, or something?) so it ends up with the system settings (xorg.conf).