Bug 666247 - Weird behaviour of Gnome keyboard preferences (and applet)
Summary: Weird behaviour of Gnome keyboard preferences (and applet)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: 14
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-12-29 20:39 UTC by Peter Verthez
Modified: 2018-11-28 21:12 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 17:45:41 UTC
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Description Peter Verthez 2010-12-29 20:39:47 UTC
Description of problem:

See originally my comment in bug 552397, copied here:

I've configured my fedora 14 desktop from the start (at installation) with a
"United Kingdom" keyboard, because my keyboard has a QWERTY layout.  In Gnome I
saw that there was an applet that could allow to switch the keyboard layout
simply via the applet, so I tried that out by adding a "Belgium" (AZERTY)
keyboard.

At that moment I had enabled "Separate layout for each window" accidentally,
and afterwards I disabled it, because I wanted to have the same behaviour for
all windows.   And then I switched back to "United Kingdom" for my normal work.
 However, from then onwards, all new programs that I started automatically
changed the keyboard layout to "Belgium" (and not only for that program, but
for the entire desktop).   Once I manually set it back to "United Kingdom" for
that program, it stayed that way, also when I closed and reopened the program.

After some experimenting, I found that when I changed the order of the keyboard
definitions in the keyboard applet (first "Belgium", then "United Kingdom") I
didn't have that problem.   But when the order is "United Kingdom", "Belgium"
(which I originally had), the problem appears again.

Also, after switching the order to "Belgium", "United Kingdom", selecting the
last one first doesn't register: you have to select the first one again and
then the last one.   After that first time, the selection is ok.

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