For different reasons I have to use different keyboard layouts, but I have had problems with multiple layouts in the past repeatedly (but that shouldn't matter too much).

Now I have yet another issue. With three specific layouts enabled, KDE just doesn't set them right.

Here is the command that X.org should receive from KDE at startup:

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setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout de,gr,de -variant deadgraveacute,polytonic,neo

As you can see, there are three layouts; two German (one an ergonomic variant) and one Greek. However, instead of the third layout (the German neo), my keyboard changes to Hebrew when I activate it. (The other two layouts work fine for the time being.) The reason it does this is probably because previously, I did have Hebrew set as the third layout. I have tried to find the reason for this behavior but failed so far, and I think I have searched every possibly related config file (including kxkbrc and Xorg.conf).

Now what is really interesting is that everything works fine when I set it manually:

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alvanx@ICHTHYS:~> setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout de,gr,de -variant deadgraveacute,polytonic,neo
alvanx@ICHTHYS:~>


So this is clearly a KDE issue. KDE seems to just not receive the command somehow.

Is there a fix for this or is it a bug?

openSUSE 11.2, KDE 4.4.3 (Factory)

Can you please post a screenshot of System Settings > Region & Language > Keyboard Layout?

Totally!



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Please check in ~/.kde4/Autostart, ~/.config/autostart and ~/.kde4/env for scripts which may be applying your X keyboard layout.

There is nothing in ~/.kde4/env/, there's a kde-basket.desktop starter in ~/.kde4/Autostart/, there are two plasma, one dropbox and two beagle starters in ~/.config/autostart/. I checked if the plasma starters where modifying anything (just in case), but none of them seem to do anything.

To isolate problems from a stale configuration, can you try and reproduce under a new user?

Everything works with a new user.

I also thought that it might be helpful to see if the problem would occur with a new .kde4 folder. It didn't.

That leads me to remember that I did play (or mess) around with xmodmaps. I had to because the X.org versions from the buildservice repo had messed up my keyboard layouts. I wonder if it is possible to somehow reset this stuff, and if that could help the problem?

Thanks a lot already!

Please try removing the file ~/.Xmodmap

Otherwise, you will need to find the script which is executing xmodmap during the login procedure.

That did the trick. Thanks a lot.