F18/Rawhide, kdm: wrong keyboard layout

[Sandro Mani]

Hi,

I've been noticing this since at least September (but reboot really
rarely, so I always forgot to mention the problem...). My keyboard
layout of choice is swiss german, and the layout is such everywhere
except at the kdm login screen.
I've got "vconsole.keymap=sg" in the grub command line,
KEYTABLE="sg"
MODEL="pc105"
LAYOUT="ch"
VARIANT="de"
in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and an empty xorg.conf. AFAICT
/etc/kde/kdm/* do not contain any layout related settings.

I see this both on rawhide and F18 KDE, and I seem to remember that I
also noticed it on F18 Alpha Gnome before I wrecked the virtual
machine.

Anyone else noticing this / any idea how to fix?

Thanks,
Sandro

[Frank Murphy]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:34:54 +0200
Sandro Mani <manisandro(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>  
>  I've been noticing this since at least September (but reboot really
>  rarely, so I always forgot to mention the problem...). My keyboard
>  layout of choice is swiss german, and the layout is such everywhere
>  except at the kdm login screen.
>  I've got "vconsole.keymap=sg" in the grub command line,
>  KEYTABLE="sg"
>  MODEL="pc105"
>  LAYOUT="ch"
>  VARIANT="de"
>  in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and an empty xorg.conf. AFAICT
>  /etc/kde/kdm/* do not contain any layout related settings.
>  
>  I see this both on rawhide and F18 KDE, and I seem to remember that I
>  also noticed it on F18 Alpha Gnome before I wrecked the virtual
>  machine.
>  
>  Anyone else noticing this / any idea how to fix?
>   
Seeing it alos on F18\Rawhide with Xfce, and LightDM or Lxdm

No idea of permanent fix. -layout gb, Lightdm login -layout us.

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 10/26/2012 02:34 PM, Sandro Mani wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I've been noticing this since at least September (but reboot really
>  rarely, so I always forgot to mention the problem...). My keyboard
>  layout of choice is swiss german, and the layout is such everywhere
>  except at the kdm login screen.
>  I've got "vconsole.keymap=sg" in the grub command line,
>  KEYTABLE="sg"
>  MODEL="pc105"
>  LAYOUT="ch"
>  VARIANT="de"
>  in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, and an empty xorg.conf. AFAICT
>  /etc/kde/kdm/* do not contain any layout related settings.
>
>  I see this both on rawhide and F18 KDE, and I seem to remember that I
>  also noticed it on F18 Alpha Gnome before I wrecked the virtual
>  machine.
>
>  Anyone else noticing this / any idea how to fix?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Sandro 
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/vconsole.conf.html

[Frank Murphy]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:14:12 +0000
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  > Anyone else noticing this / any idea how to fix?
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Sandro
>  
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/vconsole.conf.html 
Doesn't fix it for me.
kemap=uk, can be both wrong and right.
It does appear to be an X problem on my rawhide.
With on runlevel 3 login: user password works fine. (keymap, UK)
startx
in Term | is now a >, and other also switch (keymap, UK)
It is only when "setxkbmap -rules evdev -layout gb -model pc105
-variant extd"
is run, that | is once again |.
On this physical keyboard | is above \, next to shift-L.

[Sandro Mani]

I haven't tried the vconsole thing yet (can't log out right now), but
also in my case the problem _only_ appears at the login screen.
Everywhere else, including on VTs, the layout is correct.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:14:12 +0000
>  "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > > Anyone else noticing this / any idea how to fix?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sandro
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/vconsole.conf.html
>
>  Doesn't fix it for me.
>  kemap=uk, can be both wrong and right.
>  It does appear to be an X problem on my rawhide.
>  With on runlevel 3 login: user password works fine. (keymap, UK)
>  startx
>  in Term | is now a >, and other also switch (keymap, UK)
>  It is only when "setxkbmap -rules evdev -layout gb -model pc105
>  -variant extd"
>  is run, that | is once again |.
>  On this physical keyboard | is above \, next to shift-L.
>
>  --
>  test mailing list
>  test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  To unsubscribe:
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 18:16 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
>  I haven't tried the vconsole thing yet (can't log out right
> now), but
>  also in my case the problem _only_ appears at the login screen.
>  Everywhere else, including on VTs, the layout is correct. 
It sounds like the console layout is correct and your desktop (KDE or
whatever) also has the correct layout configured for your user, so I
think what's missing is the systemwide X11 layout. Johann, where does
that get set?
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Frank Murphy]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:55:47 -0700
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 18:16 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
>  > I haven't tried the vconsole thing yet (can't log out right now),
>  > but also in my case the problem _only_ appears at the login
>  > screen. Everywhere else, including on VTs, the layout is correct.
>  
>  It sounds like the console layout is correct and your desktop (KDE
>  or whatever) also has the correct layout configured for your user,
>  so I think what's missing is the systemwide X11 layout. Johann,
>  where does that get set? 
Sorry about the late reply

I fixed my login screen problems (LightDM)
with "localectl set-keyboard uk"

man localectl (within F18)

-- 
Regards,
Frank

[Sandro Mani]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:55:47 -0700
>  Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 18:16 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
> > > I haven't tried the vconsole thing yet (can't log out right now),
> > > but also in my case the problem _only_ appears at the login
> > > screen. Everywhere else, including on VTs, the layout is correct.
> >
> > It sounds like the console layout is correct and your desktop (KDE
> > or whatever) also has the correct layout configured for your user,
> > so I think what's missing is the systemwide X11 layout. Johann,
> > where does that get set?
>
>  Sorry about the late reply
>
>  I fixed my login screen problems (LightDM)
>  with "localectl set-keyboard uk"
>
>  man localectl (within F18)
>
>  --
>  Regards,
>  Frank
>  --
>  test mailing list
>  test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  To unsubscribe:
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test 
Thanks, that worked!