kde session keyboard settings

Roderick Johnstone rmj at ast.cam.ac.uk
Mon Dec 23 17:05:37 UTC 2013


Hi

I'm trying to establish an F20 x2go kde session with the correct 
keyboard type and mapping for my clients' keyboards (pc105/gb, and mac). 
What I get when I log in is always a us keyboard map for a pc105 keyboard.

I've tried starting the x2go session with a simple xterm, and found that 
I can get the correct keyboard mapping as set by the x2go windows 
client. (I had to touch a file /usr/share/X11/xkb/keymap.dir to get this 
to work though.)

Since the keyboard map is correct in the Xterm session but wrong in the 
kde session it looks like x2go is setting the keyboard/map ok but that 
kde is somehow overriding what is being set by x2go. (I've tried with 
Keyboard daemon both checked and unchecked in System Settings  -> 
Startup and Shutdown -> Service manager. I'm running with kscreen2 
unchecked as that causes other problems with resizing the session window).

Does kde try to set the keyboard type and layout on login?

If so, how can I stop it doing that and accept whatever was set before 
startkde was run?

Thanks

Roderick Johnstone

PS I thought I had this working robustly from different clients in 
F20-beta, but I'm back to square one now.


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