F18/Rawhide, kdm: wrong keyboard layout

[Frank Murphy]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:34:54 +0200
Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com> 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.