Bug 46779 – gnome 2.6 - keybinding / keyboard layout

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Alfredo 2004-04-04 10:13:16 UTC]

Yesterday I compiled gnome 2.6 but I've got a wired keybinding...

acme in gnome 2.4 works good for my multimedia keys but not it's merged into the gnome layout and it doesn't work any longer.
This is the message that I get when trying to set up some m.key:

The shortcut "0xae" is already used for:
 "Launch Help Browser"

and then when gnome starts that's what it complains:

"
	Error activating XKB configuration.
	Probably internal X server problem.

	X server version data:
	Gentoo Linux (XFree86 4.3.0, revision r5)
	40300001

	If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
	- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
	- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
"

Here below the output:

dot@ka dot $ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "us", "it", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "pc105", "us", "it", ""

dot@ka dot $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
 layouts = [us  it]
 model = pc105
 overrideSettings = false
 options = []



For the moment I re-emerged acme but for my keyboard layout I've no solutions.
Damn! :-) don't work square and curly brakets for examples even if I change the layout in "it".

Suggestions?

[Comment 1 Cyril Jaquier 2004-04-04 11:58:05 UTC]

I got the same problem with my HP nx7000 (laptop). I solve it by selecting the correct keyboard layout in "Applications" -> "Desktop Preferences" -> "Keyboard" -> "Layouts". The nx7000 isn't listed there so I just try some others layouts until I found a working one.

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-04-05 06:55:37 UTC]

@ reporter : you are probably just working with an incorrect lay-out and should fix that yourself.

@ comment 1 : such things should probably reported upstream, so they can be fixed in the database.

[Comment 3 Alfredo 2004-04-05 10:10:32 UTC]

None of the listed layouts work in my case :-\
The message is always the same. don't you thing I've tried it before posting?
I read in gentoo forums as well ... But nothing to do.

[Comment 4 Jon Scott 2004-04-06 03:33:29 UTC]

I am also seeing the problem with trying to set multimedia keybindings. I get the "shortcut <blah> is already used for launch help browser" message. If I try to set the launch help browser shortcut, then it says the shortcut is already used by logout. If I use gconf-editor to set the shortcut directly (apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings) to the value printed in the error message (eg 0xae), then the it works fine, so it seems to be just a problem with the gui.

[Comment 5 metalac 2004-05-21 22:58:41 UTC]

The problem was in Gnome2.6 especially with Logitech keyboards.  It was in Gnome2.6 CVS for a long time and Gnome devs were aware of it, but it was not commited to the stable version until the release of Gnome2.6.1.  So if you want to fix it up please use the latest ebuild for Gnome2.6.1, that is currently under testing, but it works fine on all of my machines.  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" should use it as a default ebuild when doing "emerge gnome".

[Comment 6 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 04:48:25 UTC]

If this still exists with 2.8.2, please reopen.