[Solved] keyboard layout not being picked up

Question

So I recently ran into a problem where my keyboard layout is not being correctly set up. When I run
[ben@ksack ~]$ setxkbmap -print -verbose
I am greeted with
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Use defaults: rules - 'base' model - 'pc105' layout - 'us'
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: xfree86+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: pc+us+inet(pc105)
geometry: pc(pc105)
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+inet(pc105)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
My config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf is the following
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
If I run
setxkbmap -layout gb
that fixes the problem but I can't figure out
Why my config stopped working
Where to include setxkbmap such that I get my map loaded correctly
Any and all help greatly appreciated.
Last edited by benjumanji (2012-06-15 23:00:58)

Answer 1

ahhh. My locale is certainly wrong. I shall fix that, but that shouldn't effect the way that X configures the keyboard, right? I changed it anyway. Problem remains. I also fixed up my .xinitrc, that didn't help either. I think there must be something deeply wrong somewhere.
What I mean by worked and then didn't is that at my keyboard was fine (gb) with X, then at some point after an upgrade it ceased to work properly i.e. was being configured as US kb.