Comment 121 for bug 196277

When autologin is enabled in GNOME, it appears that libxklavier fails to set the layout settings. The system falls back to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf layout settings.

This has been reported in Ubuntu 8.04, running
  X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
  Release Date: 5 September 2007
  X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
  Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu9.2)
  Current Operating System: Linux computer 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:15:37 UTC 2008 x86_64 (or x86)
  Build Date: 13 June 2008 01:10:57AM

When setting XKL_DEBUG=100, .xsession-errors shows the following:

[1214761388,100,xklavier_config_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_multiple_layouts_supported/] !!! Checking multiple layouts support
[1214761388,100,xklavier_config.c:xkl_engine_get_ruleset_name/] Rules set: [xorg]
[1214761388,100,xklavier_config_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_multiple_layouts_supported/] !!! Multiple layouts ARE supported
[1214761388,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not require manual layout management - but it is provided by the application[1214761389,100,xklavier_config.c:xkl_engine_get_ruleset_name/] Rules set: [xorg]
[1214761389,100,xklavier_config.c:xkl_engine_get_ruleset_name/] Rules set: [xorg]
[1214761390,100,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_reset_all_info/] NOT Resetting the cache: same configuration
[1214761390,100,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_reset_all_info/] NOT Resetting the cache: same configuration
[1214761390,100,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_reset_all_info/] NOT Resetting the cache: same configuration
[1214761390,100,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_reset_all_info/] NOT Resetting the cache: same configuration