Bug#731245: gnome-session-flashback: Switching keyboard layouts is broken

[fgouget at free.fr]

Package: gnome-session-flashback
Version: 3.8.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I have a Qwerty keyboard. For programming I use the regular layout but when I need to type something in French I use the US International with deadkeys layout. However since the upgrade from 3.6 to 3.8 switching keyboard layouts is broken. Note that I also reproduced this issue in a brand new user account.

So my two keyboard layouts are (translated from French):
  English (USA)
  English (international, AltGr, deadkeys)

However when I switch keyboard layouts I find that I successively have:
 * A Qwerty layout with no deadkeys (in particular ' is not a dead key which makes it impossible to type an e-acute).
 * Another Qwerty layout with no deadkeys.
 * An Azerty layout! Note that that last one is not in the keyboard layout list shown by gnome-control-center. Maybe it comes from being the default layout for a French locale.

Switching keyboard layouts works correctly, dead keys and all, in a GNOME Classic session. As is this makes the GNOME Flashback session unusable to me.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback depends on:
ii  gnome-panel                                     3.8.0-1
ii  gnome-screensaver                               3.6.1-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                               3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common                            3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                           3.8.5-2
ii  metacity                                        1:2.34.13-1
ii  nautilus                                        3.8.2-2
ii  notification-daemon                             0.7.6-1
ii  plasma-widgets-workspace [notification-daemon]  4:4.10.5-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome                               0.105-2

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager  3.8.2-1

Versions of packages gnome-session-flashback suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

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