Bug 51620 – win keys and @ won't work with xorg-x11

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Janis Blechert 2004-05-21 02:17:17 UTC]

lateley I have been upgrading from xfree to xorg-x11, everything works fine expect that my special keys (win, Alt Gr, etc.) won't work anymore, since I am german and use a german keyboard i now can't make characters such as ~, @, [ and I can't switch desktops via Win+F4 anymore. Strangely enough if I try to assign a key combo with winkey to 'Switch to Desktop X' it accepts 'Win' but if I hold Win and F4 only F4 is used.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install xorg-x11 and kdebase-3.2.2
2. Switch to german keyboard layout and try for example to make an @ using Alt Gr + Q, it won't work
2. Or get into the Control Center and try to reassign any shortcut to a combo with winkey in it



Expected Results:  
let me use my keyboard as xfree-4.3.0 did.. 

I remember having the same problem with xfree cvs back when i was using 
slackware a few months ago. So the problem is most likely related to this. 
 
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.6.5-gentoo-r1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ 
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo 
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ 
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo 
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd 
encode faad flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gstreamer gtk2 imlib java jbig jpeg kde 
kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl 
oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang slp spell 
ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype usb video_cards_nvidia videos wmf x86 xml2 
xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-05-21 05:31:27 UTC]

have you modified EXTENDED_KEYMAPS in /etc/rc.conf ?

[Comment 2 Janis Blechert 2004-05-21 07:28:37 UTC]

No I have not and I have no idea what I should change..

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-05-21 07:42:21 UTC]

i'm not sure either, but I think if you set it to "euro" it will add the ability to use the euro symbol.  Other things may be settable too - perhaps the xfree team knows more.

[Comment 4 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-05-22 01:00:11 UTC]

Check http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48307 regarding the win key.

[Comment 5 Janis Blechert 2004-05-22 06:29:55 UTC]

woohoo it works all fine, this patch should be added to the default patch set IMHO, thanks. I think this bug can be closed now

[Comment 6 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2004-05-28 01:39:18 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48307 ***