F16: Three bugs that really annoy me

[nodata]

On Wed 11 Jan 2012 03:27:53 CET, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 22:52 +0100, nodata wrote:
>> I use Fedora for my desktops. I encounter three "death by a thousand
>> papercuts" daily. Judging by the bugzilla traffic I'm nearly the only
>> one with these problems.
>>
>> 1. I cannot save my keyboard layout in Gnome. I have to reset it every
>> time I login by adding and removing a keyboard layout.
>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771769
>
> That happened to me when I added the bepo layout in the list of layouts
> for my session.
>
> It seems X/XKB doesn't like some layouts, but this only triggers when
> you propagate your session setting to GDM:
>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665900
>  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43541
>
> The workaround in the meantime is to set a layout that works (most seem
> to be ok), propagate that to GDM, then add the ones you want for your
> session only.

Thanks for these. I've updated the RH bugzilla with the references. 
Hopefully others are experiencing the other two bugs as well.