[xubuntu-users] keyboard layouts still buggy

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 29/04/12 10:23, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> Just installed 12.04. Works fine. But the xfce4-xkb-plugin still does
> not do its job correctly. If you change the layout option or compose key
> position, and after logging out and in, you'll have to do it all over again.
> Why is such software not simply removed as long as it does not work?
> I finally solved it by doing:
>
> xmodmap \
>    -e 'keycode  66 = Mode_switch Caps_Lock Mode_switch Caps_Lock' \
>    -e 'keycode 135 = Multi_key Multi_key Multi_key Multi_key'
>
> in my .bashrc file
Does changing the keyboard layout under 'Keyboard' in the xfce settings 
manager have any effect?