Description of problem: GDM uses per-user language settings to choose keyboard geometry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 10 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: Just a real example 1. Get Sony Vaio PCG-6Q1M (German keyboard). 2. Try to make the keyboard work correctly: either via xorg.conf (Xkb* options in Section "InputDevice"), or gnome keyboard switcher applet. Actual results: GDM ingores its own /etc/gdm/custom.conf (so no way to select ServerLayout), and passes to Xserver command line options that make the latter ignore InputDevice section of xorg.conf and use rather strange Xkb* options that do not match the real keyboard geometry and layout, leading to a twisted keyboard layout... Expected results: There should exist a way to disable that idiotic ~gdm/.../%gconf.xml bullshit and use normal custom.conf to configure hardware-related parameters of gdm. That dynamic xml stuff should come after initial configuration via custom.conf. Additional info: At last (after a week of monkeying with this micro$oftish stuff) I've derived that using ``German'' language menu choice prior to actual user login does set (almost) correct keyboard geometry and gives quite usable keyboard. But what the hell a per user language settings do with the keyboard geometry? Keyboard geometry is a hardware related parameter and is fixed for the given machine (as notebooks have builtin keyboards). BTW there is no ``Sony Vaio'' geometry in gnome keyboard configurations set.
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