No keyboard layout indicator in Gnome 3.6

After upgrading to Gnome 3.6 I see no keyboard layout indicator in the top gnome-panel. As I have 3 layout, this is very inconvenient. Any ideas?

this also happen for a brand new user. So my setup is not the culprit
BUT this works if I login from the console with startx so not with gdm.
So gdm is the problem here. Any idea ??

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Wey wrote:
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Screenshot
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Last edited by Morgy (2014-10-18 17:18:09)

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variant: ,
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Where do I look?

Jefg60 wrote:
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==> What works in BE?
TTY's
password prompt of GDM
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killajoe wrote:
/etc/gdm/custom.conf is the file to configure gdm:
http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.28 … on.html.en
there is no gui but for what we need a gui for that?
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/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-languages
[] (string list)
Set to a list of languages to be shown by default in the login window. Default value is "[]". With the default setting only the system default language is shown and the option "Other..." which pops-up a dialog box showing a full list of available languages which the user can select.
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/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/recent-layouts
[] (string list)
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Has someone the answer to the questions I asked earlier:
1. Will I still be able to update gdm via pacman -Syu after rebuilding gdm with this patch?
2. And will there come an official Arch GDM update with this patch to solve the problem or is the only way to get it solved dealing with the patch now?
Last edited by ulukai (2009-10-17 15:28:35)

[SOLVED] Configure keyboard layout in X using Gnome

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My concern is about the console KEYMAP. I succesfully configured /etc/vconsole.conf so that KEYMAP=la-latin1 and it works almost perfectly. The only issue I have is that since my laptop was purchased in the US, using a latin american layout made me loose the greater and less characters (> and <), which are kind of essential characters for me and I'm already sick of copy pasting them. So I followed the KEYMAP section of the Wiki
Thing is none of the changes I make are taking effect, which is weird.
For now I'm only trying to get used to how it works so what I've been doing is the following (as the Wiki suggests)
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I seriously don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm sure one of you guys will be able to help me since probably I'm making some kind of stupid mistake I cannot figure out. You can be sure it's not something that stupid as exiting the files withouth saving. To be sure I also reopened the files later to check if the changes where saved and they were, both for the vconsole.conf and personal.map.gz (which I gunzipped to read and then re gzipped).
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Last edited by volotec (2013-09-06 20:13:11)

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I will tell you though that you are not the first person I have heard of recently who has run into vconsole.conf probems. But the last person I read having such problems was at least able to correctly set their keymap with localectl (though the desired font apparently never took).

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Last edited by asg1448 (2014-07-28 22:40:09)

More detail: Some keys on the keyboard do work, ie: caps lock toggles the led, and the function keys across the top seem to work {that is I can adjust brightness, and so forth}
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