Bug 886836

Summary: xfce4-xkb-plugin forgets keyboard layout
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Balint Szigeti <balint.szgt>
Component: xfce4-xkb-pluginAssignee: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Balint Szigeti 2012-12-13 10:10:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
2nd keyboard layout disappears after restart.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 17 xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.4.3-2.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a 2nd keyboard layout. I add Hungary standard.
2.restart the computer or hibernate for long time (min 1-3 hours).
the issue doesn't appear if I hibernate the machine just few seconds.
3.
  
Actual results:
The panel's plugin forgets the settings.
/home/USERNAME/.config/xfce4/panel/xkb-plugin-21.rc includes these:
display_type=0
display_textsize=1
group_policy=0
default_group=0
never_modify_config=false
model=pc105
layouts=gb,hu
variants=,standard
toggle_option=grp:lalt_lshift_toggle
compose_key_position=



Expected results:
The panel's plugin 'remembers' the settings.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2012-12-14 14:11:56 UTC 
Did you configure the keyboard in xfce4-keyboard-settings?
Comment 2 Balint Szigeti 2012-12-15 16:40:03 UTC 
Yes, I did. But the layout was configured by xfce4-xkb-plugin.
I don't know what happend my comments but I figured out when I log out/in or login through screen server the keyboard-layout settings are forgotten.
The other interesting things, in the .config/xfce4/panel/xkb-plugin-21.rc the settings exists. So, they are disappearing in the GUI but they remain in the config file.
Comment 3 Balint Szigeti 2012-12-18 07:23:31 UTC 
Created attachment 665341 [details]
after restart

there were two keyboard layout before shut down and now after start there is only one - GB. 
but now the secondary layout is missing from the config file.
Comment 4 Christoph Wickert 2012-12-18 17:41:33 UTC 
Thanks for the feedback. However that was not what I had asked you for. My question was not if you configured the different layouts in the plugin but in the Xfce control center.

Please paste the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/keyboard-layout.xml
Comment 5 Balint Szigeti 2012-12-19 10:06:23 UTC 
$cat ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/keyboard-layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<channel name="keyboard-layout" version="1.0">
  <property name="Default" type="empty">
    <property name="XkbDisable" type="bool" value="false"/>
    <property name="XkbLayout" type="string" value="gb,hu"/>
    <property name="XkbVariant" type="string" value=",standard"/>
  </property>
</channel>

Interesting. The issue appears partially. Now, when I started my computer, the layouts were fine. I will test a screensaver session.
Comment 6 Balint Szigeti 2012-12-19 12:41:43 UTC 
Created attachment 666034 [details]
after screensaver

after screensaver the other keyboardlayout disappeard from the GUI.
check the last png file.
Comment 7 Christoph Wickert 2012-12-21 22:47:36 UTC 
*** Bug 886837 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Balint Szigeti 2013-01-28 19:38:03 UTC 
I did upgrade to F18 and the issue is reamianed. I noticed that the secondary language from the keyboard-layout plugin on the panel just disappear after a time.
Comment 9 Balint Szigeti 2013-01-28 19:40:29 UTC 
so it doesn't depend on hibernate/suspend or restart.
Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 14:17:42 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
Comment 11 Christoph Wickert 2013-05-18 16:27:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 838373 ***