This is so weird. I change my keyboard layout to us. Start X. X says it's using us. But i get all my spanish letters
This is so weird. I change my keyboard layout to us. Start X. X says it's using us. But i get all my spanish letters ñáéíóú etc So weird. The only way i can switch to us is by typing setxkbmap us What is happening here? Why am i changing my layout to us since i have a la keyboard you might ask, well i am testing something because in gnome 2 all terminal apps (even kde konsole) has a faulty home end backspace delete insert , ñ and lots of other keys. They dont work. But if i manually launch startx (dont get a window manager or anything just X with some xterms) or simply use kde, all the keys work fine so this is gnome specific.
#2 issue on my bug is a gnome bug. My report here is about the X bug. Even plain startx (just xterm windows on X) has the same problem. Subject should be set up like it was before
Anything todo with bug #8174 by any chance ? I'm not much into locales, so you are pretty much on your own for this one.
i dont use locales. locales!=keymap all my system is in english, i just use the "la" keymap and i cant change it unless i use setxkbmap us Changing it in the xf86config file does not work (and yes , x is reporting to use the xf86config file i am changing)
oh right ( i said i wasn't a guru ;)). Just to make sure, you changed /etc/X11/XF86Config ? It is the XkbLayout option ? I can only suggest you check out some xfree docs and let me know what you find out.
i have always changed key layout this way, but somehow putting us in keylayout keeps using la (and /var/log... shows when i run X that us keylayout is set!) That's why i posted this bug. Again, it should be "cannot change key layout in X"
Not a gnome bug, can you reassign to the right guru ?
this is not a gentoo bug but problem of user configuration files. 1. you have to have right environment... LANG LC_ALL 2. also the right keymap for console 3. the right layout in XF86Config 4. the right font etc. etc.. It is "magic" to have the right combination of all parameters.. also the right termcap definition, right locale files, "nls" in USE to switch on the 8-bit coding for some apps, etc. etc. etc... Just bubbling about bug in X is nonsens... And just to switch the layout in XF86Config without propper env is not enough...
I have been using linux since 1999 and to change the layout in X i just edit XF86Config and i change it. In every distro. Gentoo should be the same, why reinvent the wheel?
francisco -- please do the following: rm /usr/portage/distfiles/XFree86-compose* emerge xfree and then please report.
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*** Bug 19737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
xfree digest files have been edited to reflect the changes but the XFree86-compose.dir.gz2 on the mirrors is still the old one (or is it the other way around ?) So emerging xfree fails with a bad digest...
OK, the bad digest file was obtained on the gentoo.linux.no mirror (not yet synced it seems) gentoo.oregonstate.edu has it seems the good file, so I guess it is only a question of hours.
*** Bug 20180 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 19766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
closing, since these issues are finally resolved.
