[Bug 21063] gnome-keyboard-properties cannot change keyboard distribution

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------- Additional Comments From markus at markus.org  2006-01-07 23:08 UTC -------
I've got the same problem as the original submitter and will answer for him.

I think the first phrase should be rewritten as follows:
'Changes made to the keyboard layout in gnome-keyboard-properties are not
applied and have no effect.'

In my case I've installed ubuntu 5.10 from scratch (CD) and choosen Englich as
my Language. My Keyboard is Swiss-French. As the installer does not allow you to
change the layout to something other than English I've postponed the Keyboard to
after installation. When I start the gnome Keyboard Preferences tool (System -
Preferences - Keyboard) I can choose my keyboard very nicely. The change
persists across reboots in the Keyboard Preferences tool, but has no effect.
When I check the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file then I see that the Keyboard section is
still configured with an 'us' layout.

Manually setting the keyboard using the xmodmap utility works fine I've tried
'xmodmap' and 'setxkbmap', both work:
$ xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.ch
$ xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.ch_fr
$ setxkbmap -layout ch -variant fr -model thinkpad

The gconftool command displays different stuff, depending on the user, as 'root'
the output is empty, as 'markus', the output looks good:
root at vega:/usr/share/xmodmap# gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = []
 model =
 overrideSettings = true
 options = []
markus at vega:~$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [ch  fr]
 model = thinkpad
 options = [grp grp:alts_toggle]
 overrideSettings = true

However, to me it looks like gnome is just failing to update the xorg.conf file
as it should.



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