[fedora-arm] Kaymap not surviving reboot

[Gordan Bobic]

 On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 20:17:56 +0100, Niels de Vos 
 <devos at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 07:18:26PM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm seeing a weird problem on my ARM laptop - keymap settings aren't
>> surviving a reboot. Once I fire up system-config-keyboard (GUI 
>> version)
>> and set it (it seems to remember the correct map, just have to hit 
>> OK),
>> the mappings are correct. After a reboot, it's defaulted to the US 
>> map
>> again (I have UK keyboard).
>>
>> I have tried symlinking defkeymap.map.gz -> uk.map.gz in
>> /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty, and that didn't help. My
>> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard seems to be correct:
>> KEYTABLE="uk"
>> MODEL="pc105"
>> LAYOUT="gb"
>> KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
>>
>> Where else should I be looking?
>
> Under XFCE I seem to have a file that contains my layout:
> ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/keyboard-layout.xml
>
> I am quite certain that this file was created by
> xfce4-keyboard-settings. There seems to be a
> /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/ as well, dropping a 
> default
> configuration there will likely work system-wide.
>
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is used for the non-graphical console, I'm
> unsure if GDM/XFCE knows about/uses that file.

 I'm using KDE (at the moment, going to try to get XFCE working soon), 
 and whatever system-config-keyboard does fixes it, but also whatever it 
 does isn't surviving a reboot. :-/

 Gordan