Anyway, I think running 'setxkbmap' provides a good enough workaround. Simply create a script containing "sleep 25 && setxkbmap" and add it to gnome-session...
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Bug Watch Updater < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** Changed in: opensuse > Status: Unknown => Confirmed > > -- > [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 direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in libxklavier - XKB foundation libary: New > Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed > Status in "libgnomekbd" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in "libxklavier" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in "xorg" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in "xserver-xorg-input-keyboard" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in "libgnomekbd" source package in Baltix: New > Status in Fedora: Unknown > Status in openSUSE: Confirmed > > Bug description: > (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). > > 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 > > "setting the keyboard without a device flag changes the VCK. On the first > keypress of a device however this setting is overwritten by the keyboard > that is actually being used. If you hit a key before gnome sets the keyboard > layout, the phys. keyboard's settings are already copied into the VCK and > thus gnome can overwrite them again. consecutive keypresses don't overwrite > it again, since the phys. keyboard doesn't change. > > "The correct solution here is to let gnome set the keyboard settings on > each physical device they apply to." > > 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
