Bug 141871 - Keyboard layout switches back to US from SwissGerman
Summary: Keyboard layout switches back to US from SwissGerman
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kbd
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miloslav Trmač
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-04 13:21 UTC by C. Bourboulas
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-17 08:36:27 UTC
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Description C. Bourboulas 2004-12-04 13:21:56 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
Everytime after I booted or logged out an in again, the keyboard
layout of my notebook is set back to US (for instance z / y
exchanged). I then have to go to System Settings > Keyboard to switch
back to the intended Swiss German layout. Interestingly, 'Swiss
German' is already selected, a simple [OK] turns the trick - which
alas only lasts as long as the session.

more /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="sg"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kbd-1.12-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Wet you keyboard layout to Swiss German in System Settings / Keyboard.
2. See, whether your keyboard show letters accordingly ie. for a US
Keyboard, a Y should produce a Z.
3. Log out and log in
4. See, whether 2. still is true.
    

Actual Results:  A 'Y' is shown on any program capable of typing in it.

Expected Results:  A 'Z' is displayed instead.

Additional info:

Comment 1 C. Bourboulas 2004-12-09 15:40:15 UTC
Update
I found another, probably related error:

I tried to have a shorter workaround to the problem by including the
keyboard indicator in the panel. I then tried to add 'Swiss German'
via the 'Keyboard Preferences' Screen of the indicator, wich raised
following error:

Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
60801000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
-------------------- result is -----------------------------------
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "de_CH", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
---------------------- end ----------------------------------------

- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
-------------------- result is ------------------------------------
 layouts = [us]
 model = pc105
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []
 update_handlers = []


Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2005-02-19 20:12:54 UTC
Hello,
This is all related to keyboard layout in X, not on the console, right?

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2005-04-17 08:36:27 UTC
Please reopen this report if you can provide the requested data.

Thank you.


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