Bug#732849: Not a KDM problem?

[Christopher Huhn <c.huhn@gsi.de>]

Hi,

I just stumbled upon this problem on Wheezy. Don't know if Jessie and
Sid are still affected but I assume so.

This discussion is very informative:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/12/msg01371.html

> X (whether started with a login manager or startx) gets information about
> the keyboard from udev via evdev. 
And udev does not know about changes to /etc/default/keyboard unless
notified via

> udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

Changes are then immediately picked up by KDM.

This trigger is especially not run in keyboard-configuration's postinst,
even in the newest version, so it may be a bug for console-setup.

The proposed workaround for KDM is
> . /etc/default/keyboard
> /usr/bin/setxkbmap -layout $XKBLAYOUT
in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup but that's rather ugly.

Cheers,
    Christopher