After adding the gnome overlay and upgrading to =gnome-base/gdm-3.14.1 the keyboard layout setup for xorg is ignored. It is set to be: % localectl System Locale: LANG=C LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 VC Keymap: dvorak-de-type2 X11 Layout: pc105 X11 Model: de X11 Variant: dvorak However, only the English default keyboard layout is set and usable when gdm is started. There seem to have been similar problems e. g. on Arch Linux, but they can apparently be resolved by setting the correct layout via "Settings > Region & Language > Login Screen" (in top right corner of window), see screenshots e. g. [0] (although unfortunately only in German). [0] http://linuxundich.de/gnu-linux/nach-update-auf-gnome-3-14-englisches-tastaturlayout-gdm/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add gnome-overlay 2. Upgrade all packages, including =gnome-base/gdm-3.14.1 3. Actual Results: Only English keyboard layout available in gdm although configured otherwise. % emerge --info Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.3.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.20, 3.17.4-gentoo-vidar-i7-efi x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.17.4-gentoo-vidar-i7-efi-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4790_CPU_@_3.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16383796 total, 10968604 free KiB Swap: 25165816 total, 25165816 free Timestamp of tree: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 ccache version 3.2 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.3_p30-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.20.1-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.2 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.6 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3-r1, 1.11.6-r1, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.3-r2 sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.20 Repositories: gentoo hacking-gentoo steam-overlay gnome x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=1 --load-average=8" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy clean-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fakeroot fixlafiles merge-sync news 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via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="gnutls" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" 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I think I have also seen this... but since I have autologin enabled I didn't notice until I opened control center and noticed the settings were reset to english for some reason
Ah no, I had it disabled and I logged it properly (and, then, maybe keymap was ok) :/ I have seen other reports... but they look to be caused by wrong config files around or people don't setting the proper layout with localectl: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188509 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42406 http://forum.pcastuces.com/gnome_3141__clavier_azerty_passe_en_qwerty-f8s14473.htm https://forums.archlinux.fr/viewtopic.php?p=136402#p136402
Maybe you are suffering this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741833 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164283
Anyway, we aren't able to reproduce (with spanish and french locales). What are your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* files?
Also look if this is not a variant of bug 537428
Thanks for coming back to me on this. I am still seeing this with =gnome-base/gdm-3.14.1-r1 from the tree (no overlay anymore). However, I think, the bug has changed slightly since the initial report: As of now, I am seeing a keyboard layout switcher in the upper right corner of gdm, with a German layout ("de") preselected and the option to switch to English layout ("en"). However, the X11 keyboard model still seems to be ignored (it's set to "dvorak", see below). When I type, the layout/model is the same as the standard german QWERTZ layout. I will try to provide a screenshot when I am physically sitting in front of the computer the next time to try it. Also unfortunately, I cannot see any direct connection to the mentioned bug reports: It definitely has nothing to do with special characters not working, if I try out the layout by choosing to login with another username not in the list, the layout is "correct" with regards to the wrong layout being set initially. The layout seems not to be forgotten either, just the X11 keyboard setting being ignored. Config files are as follows: $ localectl System Locale: LANG=C LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8 VC Keymap: dvorak-de-type2 X11 Layout: de X11 Model: dvorak xorg.conf does not exist in /etc/X11 . Contents of files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d by filename: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf: # Read and parsed by systemd-localed. It's probably wise not to edit this file # manually too freely. Section "InputClass" Identifier "system-keyboard" MatchIsKeyboard "on" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbModel" "dvorak" EndSection /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl.conf: Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib32/xorg/modules" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" EndSection
Try to reconfigure using "localectl" and, if still valid, please report also to upstream -> bugzilla.gnome.org And post the link here. I would at first open it for the component "gnome-control-center" instead of gdm as I think it's the one really being responsible of keyboard layout on gdm and gnome-shell (they will reassign if needed)
Sorry for coming back so late to this, but I haven't found the time earlier. I finally managed to narrow down and eliminate the cause for this bug, however it was and is not related to gdm. The key was the following error message in the gdm.service log: % journalctl --unit=gdm.service -b 0 [...] gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: (**) Option "xkb_model" "de" gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: (**) Option "xkb_layout" "pc105" gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: (**) Option "xkb_variant" "dvorak" gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: > Error: Can't find file "pc105" for symbols include gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: > Exiting gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: > Abandoning symbols file "default" gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: (EE) Error loading keymap /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm gdm-Xorg-:0[2433]: (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. After a while it hit me, xkb_model and xkb_layout are swapped, also in the output of localectl: % localectl [...] X11 Layout: pc105 X11 Model: de X11 Variant: dvorak The reason why this happened is quite simple albeit elusive: The zsh auto completion of arguments for localectl set-k11-keymap ... completes the arguments in the wrong order: First it offers models for completion, then the layouts, then the variants. But the first two need to be the other way round. So I called localectl with the right order of the arguments, i. e. % localectl set-x11-keymap de pc105 dvorak and it worked. So the question is, should this bug report be reopened and dedicated to the obvious bug in the zsh completion, or should I report this in another bug report?
I would open a new bug for zsh completion (you can add a reference to this one in "See also" field for example... and maybe an upstream enhancement bug report to systemd (bugzilla.freedesktop.org) to make localectl warn when the model and layout settings are wrong :/ Thanks a lot for the investigation and feedback :)
