I seem to be able to put it in this state by running VMware workstation on my workstation from my notebook. At that point VMware says something about mismatched keyboards. Apparently VMware has hooks in gnome and adjusts the keyboard. Next time I login to the workstation (head) it gives me the infamous message: "The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard
settings. [...]"
Maybe this is a VMware workstation bug. But Gnome should be satisfied one way or another... and it never it, always prompts after that point.
I seem to be able to put it in this state by running VMware workstation on my workstation from my notebook. At that point VMware says something about mismatched keyboards. Apparently VMware has hooks in gnome and adjusts the keyboard. Next time I login to the workstation (head) it gives me the infamous message: "The X system keyboard settings differ from your current GNOME keyboard
settings. [...]"
Maybe this is a VMware workstation bug. But Gnome should be satisfied one way or another... and it never it, always prompts after that point.