Comment # 15 on bug 1225991 from Stefan Hundhammer

I still find it weird that GNOME does not detect the system-wide keyboard
layout setting initially.

Maybe it has to do with installing in English and with a US keyboard layout,
and changing this later from within a GNOME session with YaST. At what point
would GNOME pick up the system-wide settings? Only upon its first start, when
it initializes your personal GNOME configuration files?

The weirdest part was that after changing it with YaST, simple Qt applications
like the YaST control center worked correctly (i.e. using the Norwegian
keyboard layout), and even ancient X programs like xterm. There seems to be a
disconnect (at least in this GNOME version) between GNOME / Gtk applications
and the system-wide keyboard settings.


-> Moving to the GNOME maintainers.