Re: Bug#523020: kbd does not took over language settings

[Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de>]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd
> Version: 1:1.3.2-2
> Severity: important

> I wanted to upgrade my amd64 desktop (with the radeon driver) to xorg
> from experimental. After the upgrade and starting KDE4 my keyboard
> layout was not set properly anymore (english instead if german). Playing
> with my configuration (enabling and disabling those settings) does not
> have any effect.
> There wasn't also anything interesting about this in the xorg.log.

I just had the same thing - I am using X.org from unstable, but used 
kde 4.2.1 from experimental, everything was as expected - but with the 
update to kde 4.2.2 in unstable kde took over my keyboard settings from 
X.org.

I have the following keyboard part in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
        Option          "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
        Option          "AutoRepeat"    "250 30"
EndSection


Now KDE has under it's System Settings->Regional&Language a Keyboard 
Layout setting, where only a "USA" setup was defined.

After adding a "german" part there everything works as expected again.

It seems the kde settings now generate a setxkbmap command which gets 
executed at kde startup and overwrites the keyboard settings of the 
xorg.conf.

So I think this is no bug of xserver-xorg-input-kbd but of an (for me)
unknown KDE package which does not take the correct defaults.

c'ya
sven

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