Bug#301015: marked as done (gconf2: Problem changing default
keyboard layout)
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From: Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: gconf2: Problem changing default keyboard layout
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Package: gconf2
Version: 2.8.1-4
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.5-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libxml2 2.6.16-3 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
We are using gnome on machines whose XF86Config-4 correctly specifies the
keyboard layout (gb), so that if you use a different window manager
and don't use gnome software, you get the correct characters when you
type. But with gnome-session it overrides the XF86 configured layout
and reverts to the US keyboard.
Each user can of course set this using the desktop preferences -> keyboard
tool, but as we have a few thousand users, they find this very irritating.
I have tried to override the false default by using the commands:
# gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/layouts "gb"
# gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/overrideSettings false
But this appears to produce a further problem: when any user logs in, he
gets an error message:
Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.
X server version data:
The XFree86 Project, Inc
40300001
You are using XFree 4.3.0.
There are known problems with complex XKB configurations.
Try using simpler configuration or a newer version of the XFree software.
If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
I have given these commands and obtained the following results:
# xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "gb", "", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "gb", "", ""
# gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
layouts = gb
model = pc105
overrideSettings = false
options = []
update_handlers = []
Because of this bug, we are currently discouraging users from using
gnome-session.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
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This bug has nothing to do with GConf. It was fixed in the latest
capplets package.
Regards,
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