RHBA-2012:0949 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated gnome-settings-daemon package that fixes several bugs and adds
various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The gnome-settings-daemon package contains a daemon to share settings from GNOME
with other applications. It also handles global key bindings, as well as a
number of desktop-wide settings.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the selected keyboard layout on certain machines reverted to the

"US" layout every time the user logged in. With this update, the bug has been
fixed so that the selected keyboard layout is not reverted anymore. (BZ#693843)

• Previously, the automatic mapping of the screen tablet did not work with the

NVIDIA driver. With this update, support for the NV-CONTROL extension has been
added so that the automatic mapping of the screen tablet now works as expected.
(BZ#805036)

• Previously, the button mapping to actions did not work in the Wacom graphics

tablet plug-in. As a result, the Map Buttons did not display in the GUI and
activating buttons on the Wacom graphics tablet had no effect. With this update,
these problems have been fixed. (BZ#805042)

In addition, this update introduces the following feature enhancements:

• With this update, Wacom graphics tablets are now supported with

gnome-settings-daemon. (BZ#769464)

• This update modifies the way gnome-settings-daemon stores settings in GConf.

Previously, the settings were stored stored per user and per device. With this
update, the settings are now stored per user, per device, and per machine.
(BZ#816646)

All users of gnome-settings-daemon are advised to upgrade to this updated
package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 693843 - gnome-keyboard-properties fails to save keyboard preferences
• BZ - 769464 - Add wacom support to gnome-settings-daemon

CVEs

(none)

References

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