[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#537749: Bug#537749: xfce4-settings: xfce4 loses keyboard layout settings after restart

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun, 2009-07-20 at 19:10 +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote:
> The keyboard on my Asus Eee PC 1000H has Spanish layout. Xfce4 came
> preconfigured to "us" layout, 

No, Xfce autodetects what X is using. See X documentation to manage that
(hint: dpkg-reconfigure console-setup).

> so I changed it to Spanish "es" layout. However, after a system
> restart it turns back to "us" layout, even if "es" is the only
> configured option.

Yes, it seems the configuration is saved only when you chose a *layout*.
And what you're chosing is a *keymap*. Another way to have it remembered
is to check/uncheck the “use X configuration”.

>  It is not enough to reselect "es": I have to add a new layout (or
> delete it) and then set layout "es" for the system to pick up the "es"
> layout again.
> So, after every restart I have to: go to xfce4-settings, add or remove
> a layout, and then select "es" layout. Annoying.
> xfce4-keyboard-settings correctly reports the layout as "es" or
> "es,us" or whatever. It is just not applied until some layout is
> modified. I am guessing it is a problem with xfce4-settings, but it
> might be somewhere else. 

Cheers,

-- 
Yves-Alexis
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