Bug#365642: gnome: same problem with at least one other Keyboard pref->layout Option

[Britton Leo Kerin]

Package: gnome
Followup-For: Bug #365642


I have a similar problem with Keyboard Preferences->Ctrl key
position->Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl.

But since there are at least two settings with this issue seems like a
decent chance it may be a more general problem.

I'm running the latest nvidia drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762),
installed the evil subversive way (i.e. using the makeself package
from the nvidia site, rather than the debian packages).  I had the
same problem before upgrading (in hope of fixing problem) from
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178.  Not that I have any great reason for
thinking its an xserver problem, just seems like a possibility.

To get so I could log in at all I had to remove the following from
~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml:

<li type="string">
  <stringvalue>ctrl       ctrl:nocaps</stringvalue>
</li>

Not sure why the other reporter ended up having to deal with
%gconf.xml instead.

It crashed gnome and then can't log back in just as for other
reporter.

I think this bug is maybe a bit higher than normal severity since for
a good part of the userbase that GNOME is aimed at it probably makes
the computer unusable.

Britton


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