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  1. Bug #196277
  2. Comment #91

Comment 91 for bug 196277

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote : Re: [hardy] keyboard layout switching shortcut doesn't work after reboot

The picture I have is this:

A. Ubuntu and GNOME have their own system to deal with switching layouts, adding options such as whether to get the euro key and so on. You see these in System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layouts.

B. Traditionally, the Linux desktop would read this information from the cryptic file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, in the Keyboard section. Over there you can set all the options that you normally set now in the graphical user interface.

C. When the graphical interface starts, GNOME makes a decision; is it possible to use the settings in System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layouts? Now, it appears in some cases, the answer is no (for example, if you have Autologin enabled), so GNOME eventually uses the keyboard settings found in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. These settings are not configured, and it ends up just typing English.

The hot issue is this:

Does this problem appear when you enable Autologin into GNOME?

Can you verify that when you disable Autologin, the settings work (requires reboot)?

Are there other cases (when Autologin is off) that the problem still appears?