Bug 532212

Summary: Gdm selects USA keyboard layout by default
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: seventhguardian
Component: gdmAssignee: jmccann
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 12CC: awilliam, cschalle, igor, jmccann, luke, mclasen, rstrode
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Clone Of: 530452 Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-05-01 20:06:31 UTC Type: ---
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Description seventhguardian 2009-10-31 14:01:54 UTC
I've experienced bug 530452 on two systems (one is a i686 and the other is a x86_64, not sure if relevant). The fix solved the problem for the i686 system, but not for the x86_64 one.

The problem is still present with:
gdm-2.28.1-12.fc12.x86_64


Additional info:
The problematic x86_64 system has a long term rawhide installation. The fixed i686 system was a freshly installed fedora 12 beta.

Comment 1 seventhguardian 2009-10-31 14:03:26 UTC
Created attachment 366928 [details]
The output from lshal

Comment 2 seventhguardian 2009-10-31 14:04:06 UTC
Created attachment 366929 [details]
Contents of my /ets/sysconfig/keyboard

Comment 3 seventhguardian 2009-10-31 14:09:27 UTC
Created attachment 366930 [details]
My Xorg.0.log

Here's my Xorg.0.log.

I've noticed that the layout used by gdm is the correct one (Portuguese), but the session layout (on the dropdown box) is defaulted to USA.

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2009-11-01 04:12:39 UTC
I just tried this with German, and it works as intended:

1. make german the system keyboard layout, using s-c-keyboard
2. reboot
3. notice that gdm uses german keyboard layout
4. select a user
5. notice that german is the default keyboard layout

This works unless you have something else selected in your $HOME/.dmrc

Comment 5 seventhguardian 2009-11-01 10:03:07 UTC
Here are the contents of my .dmrc:

<snip>
[Desktop]
Language=pt_PT.UTF-8
Layout=us
</snip>

So the layout is wrongly selected to be "us". I suspect that if I change it manually, it will be used.

Any idea why the .dmrc file is unchanged even if I go to System->Configuration->Keyboard?

$ ls .dmrc -l
-rw-r--r--. 1 renato renato 42 Nov  1 09:53 .dmrc

You may notice that the file is touched, but it is unchanged. Maybe a broken applet?

Comment 6 seventhguardian 2009-11-01 10:06:10 UTC
I've changed it by hand to "pt", and logged off. Gdm still selects "us", and opening the file after login shows it is set once again to "us"...

Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-11-01 23:40:43 UTC
if you

rm -f /var/cache/gdm/your-username/.dmrc
rm -f ~/.dmrc

and start fresh, does it work from then on?

Comment 8 seventhguardian 2009-11-02 00:01:09 UTC
It does! Great!

I'm not sure how to settle this, is it a bug or a just a quirk?

Comment 9 Adam Williamson 2009-11-02 07:01:11 UTC
Ray, if I'm reading this correctly it's a transient issue which hit Renato because he'd used the broken version, and it shouldn't hit any new installs or upgrades using the final release images - does that sound correct? If so, I think we can drop it from the blocker list.

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Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-11-02 12:39:49 UTC
Right, it's a bit of a trap because the layout chooser isn't really designed right.  We aren't going to fix that for GA though.

Comment 11 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 14:45:31 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 12 seventhguardian 2010-05-01 20:06:31 UTC
I'm closing this bug, as it shouldn't be a problem anymore. WONTFIX seemed the best resolution for a quirk, apart from WORKSFORME.. :)