** Summary changed: - [hardy] keyboard layout switching shortcut doesn't work after reboot + [hardy] With autologin, keyboard layout switching shortcut/settings don't work
** Description changed: - switching the keyboard layout does not work if you have auto-login- - enabled within GDM. + (This bug used to cover two separate but similar looking bugs. We split + them now, and here we describe one of the two bugs. The other bug, Bug + #251443, has to do with some shortcuts to switch between layouts not + working. An example is the Alt+AltGr shortcut). - another issue about some keyboard-shortcuts like alt-alt not working - under any circumstances has been discussed here. however, it has been - split off to Bug #251443 ... + If you enable autologin (it is in the settings, + System/Administration/Login window/Security/Enable Automatic Login), + then any settings about your keyboard layout including the shortcut to + switch between layouts do not work on your next reboot. + + In other words, the system ignores any keyboard layout settings that + have been configured in GNOME. + + This issue has been reported upstream (Freedesktop Project), and the + link is shown above. + + A good description of the root of the problem is at this post by Peter Hutterer, + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/036947.html + + A workaround is to run "setxkbmap" (command line utility), which + reapplies the layout settings in GNOME. + + Another workaround is to make a small change in the Keyboard layout + settings, something that implicitly reapplies the settings from GNOME. + For example, you can change the order of the layouts, then change them + back. -- [hardy] With autologin, keyboard layout switching shortcut/settings don't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196277 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
