x settings differs from gnome settings

[peter van zwol]

Thanks.
I have no own script.
But I could not find the place either to include the gconftool-2 call.
However, your suggestion made me reading more about this subject.
I have now adjust the conf-file and got rid of the message.

Kr,
Peter

Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Every time when I boot up my PC with Fedora 8 I get the warning that my 
>> settings for the display between de X settings and those by Gnome 
>> differs from each other.
> 
> I've got my own .xsession script for starting up a simple fvwm session,
> and ran into the same problem which I eventually tracked down. Here's
> a fragment of my .xsession file:
> 
> # Breaking news! Every damn time I connect from work via VNC, the next
> # time I login to the console X session, I get a $#@! popup about
> # "The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME
> # keyboard settings." After near infinite amounts of poking sticks
> # in random holes, I finally discovered that the $@#! gconf keys
> # under /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd.sysbackup need to
> # be reset to make this go away, so just always reset that key before
> # starting gnome-settings-daemon.
> #
> /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd.sysbackup
> /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
> 
> If you are running a normal gnome session, I'm not sure where to wedge in
> the gconftool-2 call to make it happen prior to gnome-settings-daemon,
> but removing that key worked for me. I no longer get the annoying
> popup message.
>