Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838373 and similar reports suggest that the issue of keyboard settings (layouts) being lost is already fixed. But it isn't in my case. Here are a couple of reproducers: 0) except from US English, setup another keyboard (Czech qwerty in my case) A) change keyboard manually by `setxkbmap'. All settings are gone. B) Disconnect / Reconnect a USB hub with keyboard, mouse and USB stick attached. C) Connect the same keyboard to a different USB port While the recent update has fixed the crashes and when being extra careful it helps, it's still a great issue on notebook which get connected / disconnected seeveral times per day. Version: xfce4-xkb-plugin-0.5.6-1.fc18.x86_64 (Fedora 18)
I've opened a Fedora 18 bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982240
I'm somewhat confused - why are you changing the settings with setxkbmap? Basically, you can think of xkb-plugin's behavior as undefined when changing XKB settings by outside means (practically speaking, the current version will pick up the changed settings and will eventually store them as its own; this will change a little in the xfce 4.12). Do you still lose the XKB settings if you don't run setxkbmap? Is that reproducible?
Yes, I still loose the settings without setxkbmap. By unplugging keyboard, undocking, changing keyboard from direct connection to through USB hub. That's why I use setxkbmap (mapped to a keyboard shortcut) to not have to re-setup the whole keyboard config everytime I (un)dock :) It's 100% reproducible in my case.
Hi! I use Keyboard Layouts Plugin 5.4.3 and some components of xfce from a recent git and the problem you describe never affects me. (I have an English-US keyboard layout and two Czech layouts installed.) I have a wireless keyboard which I sometimes unplug (weird you can unplug a wireless keyboard but yes, you can!) and the layout settings stay put. So maybe try a more recent version of the Keyboard Layout Plugin and perhaps xfce4-settings and xfconf from the git. I have a different issue with unplugging the usb keyboard which I am about to file a bug report on, though.
Hey, I had similar problem, everytime I restart or logged out the keyboard shortcut was lost. I fixed it up by going to XFCE Settings -> Keyboard -> Layout and I checked 'Use system defaults' and this solves my problem, so maybe it can help someone too.
Daniel, you may want to open a bug against xfce-settings - xkb-plugin doesn't handle the shortcuts (the keyboard settings you are using confusingly duplicate xkb-plugin's functionality, which will be fixed in xfce 4.12).
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