Ubuntu
gnome-settings-daemon package

Keyboard layout keeps changing to USA Alternative international

Bug #753077 reported by Victor Cordis on 2011-04-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #488048: gdm overrides keyboard layout in "no password" mode. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I don't think I got the correct pid because I couldn't find any process named *keyboard-applet or *layout etc
so i chose the notification area.

"USA Alternative international (former us_intl)" keeps appearing as the default keyboard layout
If I remove it from my layout list then it messes up my Desktop Theme and reappears after the first a relogin

HP 4520s ProBook set to "Generic 1105 key (Intl) PC"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.2-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 7 02:37:02 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-panel/notification-area-applet
GConfNonDefault:
/apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[fast_user_switch_screen0,trashapplet_screen0,workspace_switcher_screen0,window_list_screen0,notification_area_screen0,clock_screen0]
/apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[menu_bar_screen0,object_0,object_1,object_2,object_3,object_4,object_5,object_6,object_7,object_8,object_9,object_10]
/apps/panel/general/show_program_list=true
/apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[bottom_panel_screen0,top_panel_screen0,panel_0]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
XsessionErrors:
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2600): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:2603): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

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Victor Cordis (cordis-victor) wrote on 2011-04-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (21.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (784 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Victor Cordis (cordis-victor) wrote on 2011-04-08:

!!! MY BAD, I don't remember it happening, but my login screen had that USA alternative international selected !!!

This may not be a bug, but I don't consider it a cool feature either as other has this problem
( see bug 488048 or others)

I understand the need to select a keyboard layout and (because it was just selected) being in use after login,
but i think an enhanced strategy would be:

- unknown user selects an account and logs in with the keyboard layout shown below
- after login if the authenticated user has some layouts defined then change to default one
else (if layout list is empty s.t. no keyboard applet is shown in the upper right corned)
use the layout selected at login

My apologies , again :)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-04-20:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
affects:	gnome-panel (Ubuntu) → gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Victor Cordis (cordis-victor) wrote on 2011-04-21:

I already said it's not a bug, but a non-user-friendly feature!

(the login screen should select a keyboard layout for guest
users... the selected layout should be overwritten by the
user's default keyboard layout )