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[Simos Xenitellis <simos.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

This report has become quite messy and requires clean up,
1. The title and description need update; they refer to issues that probably existed in Edgy but not anymore.
2. In these 100+ comments, there are several different issues mixed together, which makes it even more improbable that they will get attention.
3. What I'll do is close this report and invite you to open new individual bug reports for each separate issue.
When filing a new bug report, please select the xkeyboard-config package.

Some guidelines
a. You should not need to edit xorg.conf in order to configure the keyboard layout. If you have to, then you applied a workaround. The problem is still a bug and requires to be fixed. All configuration should be done in the UI so that it is correct. If not, file a report.
b. You can extract the Ubuntu keyboard configuration for layouts with 
gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
c. You can test different configurations using the setxkbmap command; you need to create a 'setxkbmap' line using the information from [b]. For example,
setxkbmap -layout us -model macbook79 -variant intl -print | xkbcomp - :0
shows an error which says what the problem is about.

So, please read this post carefully and create new reports where
required.


** Changed in: mactel-support
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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"Error activating XKB configuration." - Requires manual xorg.conf editing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67188
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Status in Mactel Support: Invalid
Status in “control-center” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Fedora: Won't Fix

Bug description:
After upgrading to Edgy Eft, the Polish symbols disapeared when I write. However, they are properly displayed at the menus, web pages, etc.. During logging in, the system showed an error message:
"There is an error of configuration activation of the XKB. This could be caused by:
 - error in libxklavier, or X serwera (tools xkbcomp, xmodmap), or serwer X is not comptible with libxkbfile implementation.
Version of serwer X:
The X.Org Foundation
70101000"
 The error message also suggests to run:
rados@domowy:~$ xprop -root | grep XKB

_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "pl", "qwerty", "lv3:ralt_switch"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "pl", "qwerty", "lv3:ralt_switch"

and
rados@domowy:~$ gconftool-2 -R 

/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = []
 model = 
 overrideSettings = true
 options = []


See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration for discussion of workarounds for this bug.  For more discussion also see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2005-December/013059.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288974.

A correct solution requires that Preferences > keyboard (or a similar GUI configuration tool) set the keyboard correctly, without requiring editing of xorg.conf.  Possibly it will need changed to not update gconf but rather update the xorg.conf file directly.


This problem sometimes is caused by a new xorg that doesn't support the selected XkbVariant for the configured keyboard layout, and the upgrade program doesn't reconfigure xorg.conf (or whatever) correctly to switch to the proper layout.