Comment 242 for bug 196277

Here's a Hardy debdiff for the setxkbmap workaround, to move this bug forward. I'll subscribe ubuntu-sru to see if this is acceptable.

This patch installs a simple .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart that calls 'setxkbmap' once the user has logged in. This works around the bug that X doesn't correctly set the keyboard mappings itself.

It's fixed upstream a different way. But backporting it is non-trivial and would involve patching X. This workaround seems like a lower-risk way of fixing it for Hardy.