Bug#524992: gnome-settings-daemon: Faulty keyboard layout when logging in from remote

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Apr 22 09:29:27 UTC 2009


Le mardi 21 avril 2009 à 13:09 +0200, Christoph Pleger a écrit :
> I am running several Debian PCs. These have an 105-key International
> keyboard with german layout. When logging in (per XDMCP) from a remote Sun Ray 2
> with Sun keyboard, the keyboard layout is very faulty. For example, "g" is
> "8", "z" is "Enter" and other weird things.

What is the output of:
	gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
	xprop -root | grep XKB

> This is caused by the keyboard plugin of the gnome-settings-daemon. When I
> disable that plugin (by removing the plugin file from
> /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-2.0), the keyboard layout is correct.

You can disable the plugin in GConf instead of removing the file; but I
suspect this is caused by a misconfiguration anyway.

Cheers,
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