Xorg creates spurious XKB groups when initialized by hal
Submitted by Sergey V. Udaltsov
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
xorg.conf is expected to be clean. If the person has in /etc/default/console-setup (Ubuntu)
XKBLAYOUT="fr" XKBVARIANT="oss"
Instead of 1 group, xorg creates configuration with 4 groups! Running setxkbmap afterwards fixed the issue completely.
See GNOME's bugzilla for more details
Version: 6.8.2