Comment 2 for bug 253168

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André Pirard (a.pirard) wrote : Re: [Bug 253168] Re: GNOME login without any keypress prevents the working of GNOME-configured keyboard options

On 2008-09-13 14:43, Biörn wrote :
> Workaround: ...
All other similar reports were saying that the problem occurs with
autologin.
Hence, I introduced this report with the correct reason in the title.
The problem occurs at least with passwordless login too.

Now that Bug #196277 has changed its title to almost the same, I've set
this one as a duplicate.

The best workaround has been stated without any single word sending you
for a 1-hour search :

Bryce Harrington wrote [to Bug #196277] on 2008-05-14 : (permalink)
> [... running 'setxkbmap' at login time is a workaround ...]
>
> Another way to add 'setxkbmap' is to copy this into file
> ~/.config/autostart/setxkbmap.desktop:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Version=1.0
> Name=setxkbmap
> Name[en_US]=setxkbmap
> Exec=setxkbmap
> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true