Bug 174460 - Using setxkbmap (or enabling keyboard layouts) screws up keyboard input completely
Summary: Using setxkbmap (or enabling keyboard layouts) screws up keyboard input compl...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
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Reported: 2008-11-06 18:36 UTC by Manuel Nickschas
Modified: 2009-03-01 23:56 UTC (History)
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Description Manuel Nickschas 2008-11-06 18:36:17 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc-4.3.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

With a recent KDE trunk checkout, enabling/switching keyboard layouts completely screws up keyboard input. The cursor keys stop working at all, and right alt (AltGr on German keyboards) suddenly acts as an enter key. More is probably screwed. This happens across all KDE and non-KDE applications, even in an xterm.

This can be triggered by issuing the following:

setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout us

It also can be triggered by enabling keyboard layouts in systemsettings. Happens to me on several machines, running xorg 1.4 and 1.5.

I have a German keyboard on a Thinkpad T60p and on a W500, but I prefer having US-intl layouts on them. As long as I don't touch the layout while logged into KDE, this layout works fine (I set it in xorg.conf). It only stops working after doing the above.
Comment 1 Manuel Nickschas 2009-03-01 23:56:46 UTC 
Fixed for me quite a while ago, forgot to close this bug.