Keyboard layout recognition

Hi
I am an italian user of FCS.
As we know the program works by recognizing only the English keyboards. Every time I start the program I must set the keyboard layout in the Default US mode. Is there a way to avoid this? Or, at least, can automate this on startup? I recently purchase the Logickeyboar for FCS but the problem is still there. Thanks for the help.

I've been going crazy with this issue for the last 5 years of my professional life. FCP has advanced in versions but nothing has been done about this. I would be glad if someone could post a workaround, as I think my issue is very similar to the one described by luketheduke.
IF OSX is installed in French with a French keyboard, then everything's fine — you get a default French keyboard layout. However, if you're like me and you prefer an English OS but you work in France, all you have (physically) are French keyboards. QWERTY is not an option since most of the work is done in French (email, research, titling...) From my experience, it is impossible to have a predictable behavior when launching FCP in an English OSX with a French keyboard.
If you switch the languages order in the Languages & Text preferences pane *just before* launching FCP, then you get a working French layout if you don't forget to select Keyboard > Default French Layout from the Tools menu (all the above is displayed in French, of course). You have to do it every time.
I found a solution to the first problem (switching languages in the Languages & Text preferences pane) described by Tallama [here|http://superuser.com/questions/42791/can-i-change-the-default-language-of -a-application-program-in-snow-leopard].
Basically it boils down to this:
defaults write $(mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -raw /Applications/Final\ Cut\ Pro.app) AppleLanguages "(fr, en)"
This makes FCP launch in French instead of English while still keeping the entire OS in English. However, this does not solve the keyboard layout menu problem. You still have to select the default French layout, but at least now it works.
I would be grateful, too, if someone could sort this mess out.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: Nawyecky

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Hi,
After recent upgrade (mostly gnome-3.6-related) on my laptop I decided to drop gnome-settings-daemon and use lightweight xsettingsd for my i3wm desktop environment. However, with gnome-settings-daemon gone my X keyboard layout configuration was gone as well. I tried to configure it using the following lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf:
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So, first part of my question: is there a way to drop setxkbmap command and use X11 config only?
My first action in debugging this was to look into Xorg.0.log, which brings me to the second part of my question. I found rather suspicious things there:
[ 27.070] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
[ 27.070] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 27.070] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 27.070] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us,ru"
[ 27.070] (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",winkeys"
[ 27.070] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 27.130] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Video Bus" (type: KEYBOARD, id 7)
[ 27.130] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 27.130] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 27.130] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us,ru"
[ 27.130] (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",winkeys"
[ 27.130] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
[ 27.134] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Sleep Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
[ 27.134] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 27.134] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 27.134] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us,ru"
[ 27.134] (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",winkeys"
[ 27.134] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
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[ 27.136] (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",winkeys"
[ 27.136] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
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[ 27.138] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 27.138] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
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[ 27.138] (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",winkeys"
[ 27.138] (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
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However, there are very strange entries too - somehow my webcam, power button, sleep button and video bus (!) were recognized as keyboard! Is this normal behavior? This does not seem to have any consequences, but still this does not feel right.
Regards,
Vladimir.

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