Bug 706848

Summary: cannot switch keyboard layout
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Willies <jan>
Component: control-centerAssignee: Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: collura, control-center-maint, mensik2, rstrode
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Description Jan Willies 2011-05-23 08:41:51 UTC 
Description of problem: I cannot switch between two keyboard layouts with gnome3. I can add a second layout but when I open "Religion and Language" an error message is shown (see attached screenshot). The error message reads: Error activating the xkb-configuration.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.1.1-5.fc15.x86_64


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a second keyboard-layout in "religion and language"
2. try to switch between them via shortcut (doesn't work)
3. open "religion and language" again and see error message
  
Actual results: error message


Expected results: working layout switch


Additional info: Here's the info requested from the dialog:


[jan@jan ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105+inet", "us", "nodeadkeys", "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105+inet", "de", "qwerty", "grp:alt_caps_toggle"
[jan@jan ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard model
''
[jan@jan ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts
['us\tnodeadkeys', 'de\tqwerty']
[jan@jan ~]$ gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard options
['grp\tgrp:alt_caps_toggle']
Comment 1 Jan Willies 2011-05-23 12:28:09 UTC 
Created attachment 500411 [details]
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Comment 2 Jiri Mensik 2012-02-10 05:41:43 UTC 
I have the same problem with Czech (querty) and English keyboard in Fedora 16.
Comment 3 Jan Willies 2012-03-28 10:41:52 UTC 
It works fine for me now. Can it be closed jiri?
Comment 4 Jiri Mensik 2012-04-15 16:33:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> It works fine for me now. Can it be closed jiri?

Jan, I can't check. The bug was so bad for me that I had to switch to Ubuntu.
So if it works for you, it can be closed.
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