weird behavior of xkb plugin

[Sergey Manucharian]

Thank you for the link and the work-around, Artyom!

Looks like indeed race conditions appear, but I can't imagine
how...

Cheers,
Sergey

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:12:03 +0300
"Артем Смирнов" <smirnoffjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea, looks like same problem have all peoples who use more than one
> layouts... http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8595
> As temporary fixing, try to add
> setxkbmap "us,ru,am"
> in ~/.profile and relogin.
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007 9:03 PM, Sergey Manucharian
> <sergey.manucharian at rmico.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Yesterday I've finally upgraded my xfce from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 along
> > with overall system update (xorg server is 1.4.0.90 now). Xkb
> > keyboard layout switcher plugin works now very strangely.
> >
> > I have 3 layouts in the xorg.conf file: "us,ru,am". When xfce is
> > started up, the first (us) layout is shown properly, but 2 others
> > do not show up at all. When I change the layout by the keyboard key
> > (mapped by xmodmap), the xkb-plugin shows "(null)", but the actual
> > layout is changed to the proper one.
> >
> > If I remove the plugin from the panel and add it again, everything
> > becomes working properly until I restart xfce...
> >
> > Any ideas? Maybe kind of "race conditions" between xorg and xfce?
> > Do someone is experiencing the same problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sergey