Bug 639145

Summary: Keyboard layout setting lost after suspend/resume
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: jocki84
Component: xorg-x11-xkb-utilsAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: mcepl, xgl-maint
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Description jocki84 2010-09-30 22:25:57 UTC 
Description of problem:
After setting the keyboard layout with setxkbmap, e.g. using "setxkbmap dvorak", the setting is lost after a suspend/resume cycle.

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setxkbmap dvorak
2. System -> Shutdown -> Suspend
3. Resume the system
  
Actual results:
The keyboard layout is back to default

Expected results:
The keyboard layout should remain unchanged.

Additional info:
This is using Fedora 14 graphics test Live CD 20100828
Comment 1 jocki84 2010-09-30 22:36:18 UTC 
This is the machine I'm using:

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4f11c692-6cb4-4348-8520-5be575c02a94
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2010-10-04 13:42:21 UTC 
yes, because setxkbmap is not for permanent setting ... use configuration tool provided by your desktop environment (e.g., gnome-keyboard-properties in Gnome).

Thank you for filing the bug, but this doesn't qualify as a bug. Closing.