Fedora12 keyboard choice setting is not respected.

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On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Neil Bird wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:18:42 +0000
> From: Neil Bird <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>    After a bit more googling, I can see:
>
> $ lshal|grep input.xkb|sort -u
>    input.xkb.layout = 'us'  (string)
>    input.xkb.model = 'evdev'  (string)
>    input.xkb.options = 'terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp'  (string)
>    input.xkb.rules = 'base'  (string)
>    input.xkb.variant = ''  (string)
>
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>    Which may pertain.  Where'd that 'us' come from?  My xorg.conf says:
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> Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"

Copy /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi

Edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi:
replace
    <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us</merge>
with
    <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">uk</merge>

us can be replaced by uk, fr, etc. - your choice.

Reboot.


Gabriel

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I found another way that seems to work, and does not require any changes to /etc files or copying from /var

Assume you are using gnome. Then add   "keyboard layout indicator" to the panel and set it to your preferred keyboard layout. Use the options to delete all keyboards you do not want to see.  Then irrespective of the keyboard shown in the Gnome signon panel, it appears or will keep the one you originally chose  from the keyboard layout setting