Hotplugging Keyboard Layout Switching Problem

With a recent update, my keyboard configuration got a bit hosed. The super key stopped working, I couldn't use shifts to swap keyboard layouts, and ctrl/caps swap reverted back. Instead of troubleshooting that, I decided to give hotplugging a try. I disabled the keyboard configuration in xong.conf and enabled hotplugging.
Everything is working fine with one exception. If I list more than one keyboard layout in the .fdi, the keyboard reverts back to 'us'. As far as I can tell (and other posts have verified this) this is pretty close to copy/paste from xorg.conf. If I use just a single layout, that layout works.
Any advice?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
<append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">dvorak,us</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
<merge key="input.xkb.options" type="string">grp:shifts_toggle,ctrl:swapcaps</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Last edited by elegua (2009-02-14 15:20:28)

elegua wrote:
Of course I get it figured out a little bit after asking.
It seems that the update killed the ability to use dvorak layout with anything else in setxkbmap. The following works for me now.
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us,us</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">dvorak,basic</merge>
elegua, where did you ask your questions? I've got a very similar problem, tried this (pure guesswork):
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">us,ru</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">basic,winkeys</merge>
But it won't wash ...

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