Bug 47671

If you disable autologin - what is the layout used in GDM?

I'm not sure.  Ubuntu doesn't use GDM by default.  LightDM happens to do the right thing, and leaves the layout correct when it starts the user session, which is why the Ubuntu bug mentions autologin.

But autologin is a bit of a red herring, because the reproduction steps I gave don't involve a display manager at all, just startx.

I guess it is a (patched?) g-s-d. I tried to reproduce in FC16 - and my first layout is ‘it‘.
Please file a bug against g-s-d - but first check if it is reproducible in other distros

I now managed to reproduce it in FC - but still it is an issue with gnome-settings-daemon

I guess it is the same as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671880

Actually, just running

gsettings set org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts "['us','ru']"
gsettings set org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard layouts "['it','it\tnodeadkeys','it\tus']"

selects 3rd italian layout. For some reason.

It is in libxklavier indeed. Investigating. Fixing.

Perhaps even deeper, in X.Org. It seems XOrg has issue loading keymaps generated by libxklavier. For example, that one:

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete" };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete" };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+it+it(nodeadkeys):2+it(us):3+inet(evdev)+group(rctrl_toggle)+srvr_ctrl(no_srvr_keys)" };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)" };
};

Could please anyone having that issue try to load that keymap to X without GNOME ("xkbcomp input.xkb :0"). And then check the resulting group names: "xkbcomp :0 -xkb - | grep name"). What names do you see for groups 1-3?

I see a very strange thing:

    name[group1]="Italian";
    name[group2]="Italian (eliminate dead keys)";
    name[group3]="English (US)";

Instead of

    name[group1]="Italian";
    name[group2]="Italian (eliminate dead keys)";
    name[group3]="Italian (US keyboard with Italian letters)";

What are your results?

Stupid me!

Here is the answer. Try to change

    name[Group1]= "Italian (US keyboard with Italian letters)";

    include "us(euro)"

to

    include "us(euro)"

    name[Group1]= "Italian (US keyboard with Italian letters)";

in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/it.

It works for me.