Weird characters after changing keyboards

Submitted by mar..@..il.com

Assigned to Alexander Iliev

Link to original bug (#4327)

Description

I have up to now used only Gnome, and was just trying out Xfce. When I tried to use the xkb panel, it gave me only the options of German and English, with no option to add more (but maybe that's hidden somewhere...).

However, the US-English option had the normal German keyboard (which is my default keyboard in Gnome), and when I tried to select the German keyboard, I got a weird "special characters" mode, as though I had the AltGr key pressed -- i.e. »đ¢€ instead of xfce.

This may be something deeper, however, as I also tried setxkbmap la (to use a home-brewed Ancient Latin keyboard), but this gave me some sort of Hindi or other eastern font, where in Gnome it allows me to type ā ē and such using the AltGr key.

I am on Fedora 9. Package versions: xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-4, xfce-xkb-plugin-0.4.3-4, libxkbfile-1.0.4-5