F15 beta rc2 gnome and keyboard issues

[mike cloaked]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 20:19 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM, James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> If I go into system-settings and try to change region I can select
>> >> English(UK) - and when I logout and back in that sticks - but whatever
>> >> I do I cannot get a UK keyboard!
>> >>
>> >> I also looked for settings in gdm ahead of login to see if a UK
>> >> keyboard option exists - and I can't find any -
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know of a workaround at this stage?  Without a UK keyboard
>> >> it is difficult to progress since many passwords use have other
>> >> characters than A-Z/0-9 ....
>> >
>> > What is present in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ?
>>
>> KEYTABLE="us"
>> MODEL="pc105+inet"
>> LAYOUT="us
>
> Can you confirm whether the following update resolves this issue?
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/control-center-3.0.0-1.fc15,gnome-settings-daemon-3.0.0.1-1.fc15
>

This package fixes the crash when entering the keyboard option - but
it did not immediately allow me to set/get a UK keyboard.  I tried
Adam's suggestion of using system-config-keyboard but that did not
solve the change of keyboard issue either - eventually I went into the
region and language setting and added English(UK) - I am not sure at
what point I realised but in the top taskbar in Gnome3 there appeared
"en" which was not there before (presumably when adding the
English(UK) option) - but clicking on that then allowed me to switch
to English(UK) and from that point I did have a UK keybooard mapping
active.

I don't know if there is a simpler way of switching to the UK keyboard
but that seems awkward and user unfriendly - maybe I just missed the
obvious method if there is one?

-- 
mike c