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

[Alex Fernandez]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez<corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> 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).

I am a bit confused about this, please forgive my deep ignorance about
X and xfce4 configuration. I assume you mean
  $ dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
as console-setup is just used for tty's and these are working fine
with "es" layout. (Anyway I tried it out too.) But no use: after both
reconfigures the keyboard keeps "us" layout, and after a reboot
everything is back to abnormal (i.e. "us" layout,
xfce4-keyboard-settings not working). Of course it is not writing out
an xorg.conf file, but that is a different issue.

Also, I have not checked "use system defaults", so why should xfce4
care about what X is using? I am trying to tell it explicitly to
ignore any X configuration and use an "es" layout. Can it be done?
What am I doing wrong? Or is it some kind of configuration bug?

>> 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”.

Now I am really confused. It says "es" under "Layout", empty variant;
so I don't know why I am choosing a keymap. Even if I have two layouts
("us" and "es"), switching between the two does not help. Why is it
saving the configuration after I add or remove a layout, but not when
I choose one from the list?

Thanks a lot for your help! I am willing to work this one out since it
is very annoying.

Alex.