Greetings If I us setxkbmap or kxkb and select the us_intl keyboard my quotation mark keys stop working. I can press the quote mark until my finger falls off; quotes (double, single, backtick, tilde) just dont work. (doh, I would have had a quote mark there in dont, but nope). In XF86Config I've got: Section "InputDevice" Driver "Keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "MapName" "Standard Keyboard [ pc105 ]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection I counted the keys on the keyboard and came to 105, so I suppose that's right. The keyboard on the back says "Cherry" but that looks like a brand more than anything else. It's an US style keyboard purchased in Germany. It's got two 'windows' keys and this funky menu key. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type setxkbmap us_intl 2. type " 3. Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: I should have seen " Here's emerge info: Portage 2.0.48 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ck6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/ http:/ /gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share /config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg gnome libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg nc urses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga tcltk java guile ruby mys ql X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif op engl gphoto2 cdr cups 3dfx acpi dga dvd emacs flash gtk2 kerberos mozilla pda pl otutils samba sse usb xml -gpm -berkdb" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -m3dnow -mmm x -msse" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -m3dnow -m mmx -msse" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
what version of xfree?
voltron? what version of xfree?
Hi Sorry, for some reason I didn't receive the question the first time. Here I was thinking my bug was lost in the void or somesuch. anyway, version is xfree-4.3.0-r2 Additional information: At work I installed gentoo as well. The machine has a german keyboard. There's a similar problem: the ~ refuses to work, but all other keys work.
I have the same problem with the be layout. But the strange thing is that when i open a terminal and make cd tilde (sorry currently i can't type it) the tilde is not displayed but i go back to my home dir.
Hi Again, Just checking up on this bug. It's rather important to me, as I can type neither umlauts nor punctuation when in German-keyboard mode. Do you have any suggestions for me to try?
either re-emerge -r2 or do the following please: X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir ? I mean you need to change the string C/Compose: C back to iso8859-1/Compose: C
Hi Thanks for the suggestion. First thing I notice about compose.dir is that the second half of the file is a repeat of the first--400 lines repeated, it looks like. I changed the first entry you said and restarted X; no change (tested only in Konsole): still no punctuation and no umlauts. Then I changed both. Now the situation is a little funky when using English-with-deadkeys. I use the KDE keyboard switcher to switch to this mode. In Konsole or Konqueror, quotation marks work but deadkey isn
Hi Thanks for the suggestion. First thing I notice about compose.dir is that the second half of the file is a repeat of the first--400 lines repeated, it looks like. I changed the first entry you said and restarted X; no change (tested only in Konsole): still no punctuation and no umlauts. Then I changed both. Now the situation is a little funky when using English-with-deadkeys. I use the KDE keyboard switcher to switch to this mode. In Konsole or Konqueror, quotation marks work but deadkey isn´t happening. When in MozillaFirebird, typing this form right now, deadkeys do work, and I can get umlauts. When in scite (a gtk editor) quotation marks don´t work at all. AAAGH! I´m willing to recompile X, but please don´t tell me I have to recompile gtk and kde! About the compose.dir, should I change both entries or just the first one?
just the first one, please
your other choice is to just re-emerge xfree-4.3.0-r2 as I have fixed it in the package itself a while ago. (or -r3 is you're that daring).
Hi I re-emerged xfree and everything appears to be OK. You can close this bug. I'll test around a bit more and if I have any more problems I'll let you know. Thanks Ben
closing
