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kaouete

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 40

[SOLVED] Gnome 3 does not follow Xorg InputClasses

Hi,

I own two keyboards with two different layouts.

Before I was using kde and I could configure the layouts using Xorg's InputClasses to match the devices: kde was just not messing with xorg's configuration.

Now with gnome 3 (3.4 and now 3.6), it seems gnome insists in using its own settings and spoils everything that can be done with Xorg.

Is there anybody with an idea of how I can tell gnome to not take care of my input devices settings?

Thank you for any help!

Last edited by kaouete (2012-11-09 13:41:16)

kaouete

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 does not follow Xorg InputClasses

For the record, I found how to manage to do that.

The idea is to disable keyboard handling of gnome using the following setting in dconf :
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.keyboard active false

I actually tried that setting when I was using gnome 3.4 but it wasn't working, gnome 3.6 seems to fix that…

kaouete

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 does not follow Xorg InputClasses

Actually, this only work for gnome itself but gdm still has problems…
Also, sometimes it fails to work and I have to unplug and replug the keyboard with the non-default layout for xorg to take over its configuration…

mipper

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Registered: 2011-09-14

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 does not follow Xorg InputClasses

I was having problems with setting the keyboard layout in Gnome via the xorg config files (adding Option "XkbLayout" "gb" to the catch-all keyboard layout which used to work just wan't having any effect) until I discovered that Gnome appears to require you to set the keyboard layout in its own Keyboard applet.  Follow the Keyboard Layout link on the main tab and add the layout you need while removing the default US one.  Worked for me so hope it helps.

kaouete

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 does not follow Xorg InputClasses

Hi, obviously it works if you only have one keyboard

That wasn't my problem.

I actually solved the rest of my problem by applying the same fix but to the gdm user settings (see the archlinux wiki for how to do that).