** Description changed:

- (This bug used to cover two separate but similar looking bugs. We split
- them now, and here we describe one of the two bugs. The other bug, Bug
- #251443, has to do with some shortcuts to switch between layouts not
+ (This report used to cover two separate but similar looking bugs. We
+ split them now, and here we describe one of the two bugs. The other bug,
+ Bug #251443, has to do with some shortcuts to switch between layouts not
  working. An example is the Alt+AltGr shortcut).
  
  If you enable autologin (it is in the settings,
  System/Administration/Login window/Security/Enable Automatic Login),
  then any settings about your keyboard layout including the shortcut to
  switch between layouts do not work on your next reboot.
  
  In other words, the system ignores any keyboard layout settings that
  have been configured in GNOME.
  
  This issue has been reported upstream (Freedesktop Project), and the
  link is shown above.
  
  A good description of the root of the problem is at this post by Peter 
Hutterer,
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/036947.html
  
  "setting the keyboard without a device flag changes the VCK.  On the
  first keypress of a device however this setting is overwritten by the
  keyboard that is actually being used. If you hit a key before gnome sets
  the keyboard layout, the phys.  keyboard's settings are already copied
  into the VCK and thus gnome can overwrite them again. consecutive
  keypresses don't overwrite it again, since the phys. keyboard doesn't
  change.
  
  "The correct solution here is to let gnome set the keyboard settings on
  each physical device they apply to."
  
  A workaround is to run "setxkbmap" (command line utility), which
  reapplies the layout settings in GNOME.
  
  Another workaround is to make a small change in the Keyboard layout
  settings, something that implicitly reapplies the settings from GNOME.
  For example, you can change the order of the layouts, then change them
  back.

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[hardy] With autologin, keyboard layout switching shortcut/settings don't work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196277
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