the keyboard configuration utility is a GNOME one and supposed to be used under GNOME where the settings daemon is running, without it your changes are not applied to the session so it would be useless
-- opening gnome-keyboard-properties changes screen resolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs