Description of problem: Different machines often have different keyboard layouts. E.g., my primary desktop has a Brazilian keyboard layout, my backup desktop has a US keyboard layout, and my notebooks have US keyboard layouts in their built-in keyboards (although they might have Brazilian keyboards plugged into them occasionally). It's a bit of a pain that the Gnome keyboard settings in a shared home dir take precedence over the keyboard layout configured in X. It's even more of a pain because the keyboard sequences configured to switch between model settings do not affect the layout, so even if I switch from Bra to USA, I still have to open the keyboard settings menu and change the base layout. Ideally, it should be possible for different settings to be configured for different hosts (like the resolution settings, for example), but that wouldn't solve the problem of keyboards with different layouts connected to the same box. For that, the model switching hotkey would have to change the layout as well, and I suppose that would be fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.13.92-2 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Using a shared home directory, configure a certain keyboard layout 2.Using the same home directory, configure an alternate keyboard layout on another machine 3.Switch back and forth between the two boxes with different keyboard layouts Actual results: You have to change the keyboard settings every time Expected results: There should be a way to avoid that. It's enough of a pain to have to change the wiring of your fingers to use the two different keyboard layouts, but when you don't have a choice as to the hardware, it would be nice if the software could not cause you even more trouble. Additional info:
This keyboard configuration is already stored per-host, so it should work. If you look in gconf-editor under /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard you see the subdirectories for each host
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