Bug 478914

Let me add that I think this only happens if the user initially (installs with and) uses a US keyboard and then switches to jp one later (and maybe vice versa).

I discussed this a little with whot and he suggested that it might be an inconsistency with how gdm hands over the xkb data to gnome so reassigning to gdm for now.

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This might be fixed in Fedora 12 or even 11, not sure.

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I tried to reproduce this bug with F-11 final but I couldn't succeed.
I'm going to close this bug with CURRENTRELEASE if there are no objections within this week.

Here are the steps I did:

(1) install F11 and select U.S. keyboard with the installer
(2) log in with the default settings ("English" language and "USA" keyboard), log out, log in with the new settings ("English" language and "Japan" keyboard).

I don't see any dialog in either steps, while I can bring it up manually by:

  $ gconftool-2 --set --type=list --list-type=string \
      /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts [jp106]

I guess gnome-settings-daemon was fixed so that it set correct value to the gconf registry.

* xprop/gconftool-2 output on the first time:

 $ xprop -root | grep XKB
 _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_al
t_bksp"
 _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", ""

 $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboards/kbd
  layouts = []
  options = []
  model = evdev

* xprop/gconftool-2 output on the second time:

 $ xprop -root | grep XKB
 _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "us", "", "terminate:ctrl_al
t_bksp"
 _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "jp", "", ""

 $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboards/kbd
  layouts = [jp]
  options = []
  model = evdev

Thanks for testing.

I upgraded the machine where I was seeing this to f12.
Need to check again if it is still happening there
but I think it may be gone...

Anyway if I still see it I will reopen...

I can confirm this is fixed for me with F12 (gnome-2.28).