clone 751955 -1 reassign -1 gnome-control-center retitle -1 Removes XKBMODEL and XKBOPTIONS from /etc/default/keyboard severity -1 serious thanks
Hello, I can confirm that gnome-control-center removes XKBMODEL from /etc/default/keyboard. Steps to reproduce: 1. $ grep -q XKBMODEL /etc/default/keyboard && echo fine || echo broken -> fine 2. $ gnome-control-center 3. Go to "Region & Language" 4. Go to "Login Screen" 5. In the "Input Sources" section add some random keyboard layout 6. $ grep -q XKBMODEL /etc/default/keyboard && echo fine || echo broken -> broken The test is done on a regular Jessie system. The version of gnome-control-center is 1:3.14.2-3. By the way, I was very surprised to find that gnome-control-center modifies a configuration file belonging to other package. This is not something Debian policy permits. Nevertheless, we do want the keyboard configuration to be user friendly, so I approve what gnome-control-center does, as long as it does it correctly. :) By the way, I've found that gnome-control-centers doesn't remove the variables it doesn't understand. Therefore, it seems the reason it removes XKBOPTIONS and XKBMODEL is that it tries to do something with these variables. Anton Zinoviev
