keyboard layout problem in gnome (gconf?)[SOLVED]

[potuz]

Hello list, I'm sorry to have this ill-posed. After an upgrade a couple of weeks ago my keyboard can't change layouts. Looking at the upgrade list I thought it could be the X server, but now I realized that there's something odd with gconf. As if some applets are not reading their keys. On the keyboard layout issue I see that /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts has value [us,us intl] (there's a tab or spaces between us and intl) when I add the layout with the keyboard preferences applet. Changing this to [us, us_intl] or even us_intl doesn't solve my problem, as it anyways does't recognize dead keys combinations.

Another issue that I started recognizing around the same time that might be related to gconf is
1) click on the clock_applet
2) click on "locations" to show them
3) click the clock applet again to close it
4) click on the clock applet yet again to open it once more.

Result, locations are closed when they should be shown by default. Of course I have set /apps/panel/applets/clock_screen0/prefs/expand_locations but still it looks as if the clock applet is not even reading that gconf key.

Have you seen this?

Thanks,

R.

[potuz]

Well, to add more confusion, I just realized that my XkbVariant option on xorg.conf is also completely ignored... does this need hal? I got rid of hal a while ago and I wander if this is where my problem started, although I believe my problem started when upgrading xorg-server.

R.

[potuz]

setxkbmap solved my issue, I guess I was reading the wrong xorg.conf, although I'm surprised I can't do this from gnome directly... perhaps that needs hal or something... won't go over code since changing xorg solved my problem.