[breezy] "The X system keyboard settings differ from your currentGNOME keyboard settings."

[k0fcc]

This is a bit of an old thread but for posterity I thought I'd
contribute to it since I had and solved the same problem recently using
XGL.

As above, the difference is between xorg.conf and gnome's gconf
settings.

The way you can see the differences with no fuss is to open up a
terminal and issue "xprop -root | grep XKB".  First line is gnome and
the 2nd line (default) is X.

e.g.


Code:
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  joey at atf:~$ xprop -root | grep XKB
  _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "base", "microsoftprousb", "us", "", ""
  _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "base", "pc101", "us", "", ""
  joey at atf:~$
  
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You have two choices: hit the default button on the GNOME keyboard
config so that your difference (in my case the "microsoftprousb") is
put back to defalts or, you can update Xorg with the newer information.

My case:


Code:
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  Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
  Driver "kbd"
  option "CoreKeyboard"
  option "XkbRules" "xorg"
  #  option "XkbModel" "pc104"
  option "XkbModel" "microsoftprousb"
  option "XkbLayout" "us"
  EndSection
  
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A good source of reference can be found here:
http://gswitchit.sourceforge.net/gnome_xkb_tsh.pdf


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k0fcc