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fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

GNOME International Keyboard layout bug?

Hello,

I'm using gnome and have it configured for us-international keyboard. The problem is that every time gnome starts, the keyboard layout doesn' t work, it seems to revert to a plan US keyboard, no dead keys. Fumbling around gnome, particularly changing layouts in keyboard preferences, and then configuring everything as it was before, seems to solve the problem until next gnome start.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: GNOME International Keyboard layout bug?

Check whether X server settings overwrite your gnome settings and change X's settings. (xorg.conf that is)

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fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

Re: GNOME International Keyboard layout bug?

That solves it. Thanks a lot Dheart!

Xorg seems to overwrite gnome's settings, indeed. Strange that it hasn't happened to me in kde or xfce... As a matter of fact, I haven't been using gnome for quite some time, hence the delay.

For future reference, if anyone is interested: the info is in the Xorg wiki article, and the relevant section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf that solved my particular problem is:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option        "XkbVariant" "intl"
    Option        "XkbModel" "logicd"
    Option        "XkbOption" "altwin:super_win"
EndSection