xkb layouts not working (in KDE?) after upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

Posted by Alan on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Alan
Published on 2010-05-16T22:34:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 22:40 UTC
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I customised my keyboard layout in 9.10 by editing the appropriate /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ file. After upgrading to 10.04 I noticed it had overwritten all my modifications, so I recovered the layout and overwrote the symbol file's base entry.

Sadly KDE (and, presumably, the entire OS) seems to ignore the files altogether. The help files don't mention anything about modifying layouts anyway (and the layout switcher seems to be using setxkbmap, which uses the above path according to its man page), so I'm at a bit of a loss.

Do I need to compile this into some other format somehow or how do I get it to work?

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