I have an IBM Model M Space Saver keyboard (Part number 1394054). It has a standard US layout but, as I am Danish, I want to shift to a Danish keyboard layout whenever I need the spacial Danish characters. These are (from /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/dk-latin1.map.gz): Keycode 26: +aring Keycode 39: +ae Keycode 40: +oslash I am therefore using the Gnome Keyboard Indicator applet to switch between US and DK layout. The problem is that the scancodes from the keys are unmapped to keycodes when using gnome-terminal 2.10.0. xev shows the scancodes to be mapped to a different scancode/keycode pair then under the console (CTRL-ALT-f1). The reason for referring toi the console is that I couldn't make "showkey -s" work in gnome-terminal. However, "showkey -a" shows that no keycode is mapped to whatever scancode is produced by the keyboard. So the 3 Danish special characters does not show up in gnome-terminal, but they do work in other X programs such as firefox where I can type the Danish characters in the URL address line after CRTL-l. Emacs and xterm works fine too. Only gnome-terminal seems to show the problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch to Danish keyboard layout 2. Try using it in gnome-terminal... 3. Actual Results: No special characters showed up in gnome-terminal. Expected Results: They should have shown up. colding@omc-1 /usr/src/linux $ emerge --info *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apm berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl eds emacs emboss fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl symlink tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I should add that the Danish special character are at the following keys (using the US mapping): +ae will show up instead of ; +oslash will show up instead of ' +aring will show up instead of [
does this still happen in gnome-terminal-2.12 ? Thanks
No response from reporter, assuming fixed.
Sorry for the _very_ late response, but it took some time getting the right keyboard hooked up to my new box. Anyway, yes - this does still happen with gnome-terminal-2.12.
Jules, Does it still happen in gnome-term 2.14 or 2.16 ? If so, don't hesitate to reopen this bug. (Closing as it's more than 6 months old) Thanks
I just checked gnome-terminal 2.14.2 where it finally works :-) Closing. Best regards, jules