When you update to the latest x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.1 kxkb stopped working at all. You can enable the layout module in kcontrol-center but it shows Off systray icon instead of the current language flag and the multimedia keys aren't working. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -u xkeyboard-config 2.update config files in /usr/share/X11/xkb directory 3.Restart the layout module(disable, enable) Actual Results: Cannot change the layout and the multiemdia keys aren't working
CXX: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.2.0 (Gentoo 4.2.0 p1.4) CXXFLAGS: -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer LDFLAGS: -Wl,-O1,--as-needed DATADIR: /usr/share LIBDIR: /usr/lib LIBEXECDIR: /usr/libexec SYSCONFDIR: /etc stdlib: GNU libstdc++ 20070514 libebt: 1.3.0 libwrapiter: 1.2.0 sandbox: enabled
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194046 ***