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Description of problem: After installing the latest bunch of GNOME3 packages, keyboard settings are not those stored in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard or $HOME/.dmrc. In the present case, their contents read /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: KEYTABLE="de" MODEL="pc105" LAYOUT="de" $HOME/.dmrc: [Desktop] Language=en_US.utf8 Layout=de whereas the keyboard layout actually applied is "en", and in the keyboard layout section of gnome-control-center, the only and active entry is "USA". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-session-2.91.6-1.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start GNOME session. 2. Open gnome-terminal. 3. Type some text. Actual results: Effective keyboard layout is "en". Expected results: Effective keyboard layout is "de". Additional info: After adding layout "de" in the keyboard layout section of gnome-control-center, the effective layout is actually correct.
As of gnome-session-2.91.90-2.fc15, no file .dmrc is created anymore. For a fresh user account, the GNOME keyboard layout is en_US.utf8 altough the content of /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is KEYTABLE="de" MODEL="pc105" LAYOUT="de" . The login manager GDM has no option to verify and modify the keyboard layout anymore. Only "System Settings > Region and Language" allows to permanently set the correct keyboard layout.
Issue resolved by some unknown build of gnome-session later than 2.91.90-2.fc15.