Bug#352131: This should (must?) be worked around

Sam Morris sam at robots.org.uk
Thu Mar 16 16:23:34 UTC 2006


Since the bug against xkbcomp has been open for six months without any 
progress, I think gnome-settings-daemon should be fixed so that it never 
sets the 'grp:alts_toggle' option.

 From a user's point of view the option is broken anyway; perhaps worse 
than broken, since setting it triggers a number of harmful effects, the 
least damaging of which is that their Gnome session becomes unusable for 
about a minute while gnome-settings-daemon is repeatedly started, killed 
and restarted until gnome-session gives up and they are left with the 
default and extremely ugly GTK theme and no icons, _every time they log 
in_; and since the harmful option is often set without the user 
explicitly setting it in the first place.

-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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