Bug 1304897

Summary: When gnome is started using startx, it no longer honors the ~/.Xkbmap file
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: stan <gryt2>
Component: gnome-desktop3Assignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description stan 2016-02-04 23:02:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
I boot into multiuser in rawhide, f24 to be.  I then use startx with
GSESSION="$(type -p gnome-session)" in ~/.Xclients to start Gnome.  When Gnome comes up, it is using the US qwerty keyboard, even though I have ~/.Xkbmap with my custom keymapping in it, and that keymapping is in the right place.  Other desktops that I start using this method have no trouble finding and using that custom keymap on start.  Well, KDE crashes here in rawhide, so I couldn't test it, but xfce, cinnamon, mate, lxde all used the correct keymap.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I'm not in rawhide right now, but it is the latest version in the repositories as of 2016-02-02

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Run rawhide
2.  Put keymap in ~/.Xkbmap, put GSESSION="$(type -p gnome-session)" in ~/.Xclients
3.  Run startx

Actual results:
Gnome starts with us qwerty keyboard

Expected results:
Gnome starts with keymapping in ~/.Xkbmap

Additional info:
I don't think this is running Wayland since I'm not running the greeter to start Gnome, unless it is being invoked behind the scenes (that is, Gnome always defaults to wayland, and ignores X configuration).

The selector in Gnome doesn't show the custom keymap in order to switch to it.  I've been using the custom keymap so long that even though I was a fast touch typist with qwerty, I'm lost now when I have to use it, hunt and peck.
Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 14:24:43 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase
Comment 2 stan 2016-03-09 15:33:45 UTC 
This is no longer the case in rawhide (f25).  So I am closing the ticket.