Hi, I have encountered exactly the same problem recently, for the exact same keyboard layout (i.e. bépo).
In one of the computers I use (an AMD64 desktop machine), I get the same behaviour as the original post: I cannot switch to bépo at all. The item appears in the top bar of my gnome desktop and if I try to switch from the fr1 menu item labeled « Français (variante) » to the fr2 menu item labeled « Français (Bépo, ergonomique, façon Dvorak) », the selection is not possible and I remain on fr1. In another computer (an I686 notebook), the menu works correctly, I can select the bépo layout and it works. Both computers run Debian wheezy. I have tried to look the differences in the packages selections but was not able to fix the problem even after installing the same set of gnome packages (for the record, the gnome-setting-daemon version is 3.4.2+git20120925.a4c817-2 on both machines). I also tried to look at user configuration files, but did not find anything specific that could explain why it works on the notebook and not on the desktop computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org