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In a fresh installation of Hardy, fully up-to-date, with no previous
~/.* files, I cannot change to the correct keyboard layout. This means
that I can't type a hash, which can be important when programming :)
This follows a problem I had a few days ago where I pressed a key on the
keypad and the keyboard layout went completely wrong. Most of the keys
didn't work at all, and some of the letter keys were recognised as
numbers. Changing the keyboard layout did not help, nor did rebooting. I
deleted all the ~/.gconf* and ~/.gnome directories, then logged in
again, and that worked.
While the keyboard layout was completely b0rked, I did manage to run the
commands suggested in the error message, and they came out as pasted at
the end. This is the same as the more recent but less eventful layout
failure.
I'm using a one of the newish Apple keyboards, the thin ones, connected
by USB.
The error message:
> Error activating XKB configuration.
> It can happen under various circumstances:
> - a bug in libxklavier library
> - a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
> - X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
>
> X server version data:
> The X.Org Foundation
> 10400090
$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "mac", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "mac", ""
$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
layouts = []
model = macintosh
overrideSettings = true
options = []
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
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Changing keyboard layout to Macintosh failed
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/261516
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