Bug 121249

Summary:	Keyboard Layout and Keybord model are empty
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	coxx <neric>
Component:	kcmkeyboard	Assignee:	Patrick Dowler <dowler>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	ahlgren
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description coxx 2006-02-02 22:03:57 UTC

Version:           3.5.1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I just switched to KDE 3.5.1 using the official packages signed by J. Ridell available on the kubuntu repositories for my kubuntu 5.10 (breezy).

In Kcontrol 3.5.1, Regional and Accessibility Menu, the fields "Keyboard model", "Keyboard Layouts", and "XKb options" are empty, preventing one to chose de keyboard type they want to use.

This bug has been confirmed by at least 3 Kubuntu users on ubuntu-fr.org forums. I'll tell them to confirm that bug on bugs.kde.org in this bug report.

This bug is a really annoying bug (even though the xkb model can be chosen in command line or by changing it directly in the xorg.conf file). 

Hope you will fix it soon or tell us how to make it work.

Thanks for your help !

Comment 1 Didier Raboud 2006-02-03 01:23:35 UTC

I do confirm it here under Kubuntu 5.10 under last disponible version of KDE, 3.5.1.

Xkb configuration stays and still works, but impossible to modify grafically.

Comment 2 coach 2006-02-03 13:07:38 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 Nicolas Dumoulin 2006-02-03 14:03:09 UTC

messages given at launch :
$kcmshell keyboard_layout
kcmshell: WARNING: KLocale: trying to look up "" in catalog. Fix the program
QComboBox::changeItem: (comboModel) Index 0 out of range

Comment 4 Julien Meunier 2006-02-03 18:40:05 UTC

I have this bug too. There is anything in "Keyboard model", "Keyboard Layouts", and "XKb options".

Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2006-02-04 15:12:15 UTC

Can anyone who is not using Kubuntu confirm this too?

Comment 6 Andrew Svet 2006-02-05 04:27:34 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 7 Sergio Cambra 2006-02-05 13:21:20 UTC

It's solved with this command:
sudo ln -s /etc/X11/xkb /usr/share/X11

So, I think it's a bug of Kubuntu packages

Comment 8 Nicolas Dumoulin 2006-02-06 10:01:52 UTC

@Sergio Cambra

It works fine (kubuntu)
Thanks

Comment 9 coxx 2006-02-06 18:21:17 UTC

This seems to be a bug specific to the kubuntu packages, and I solved too the bug by creating the symbolic link, as advises Sergio Cambra : 

sudo ln -s /etc/X11/xkb /usr/share/X11

Thank you Sergio !

Comment 10 Thiago Macieira 2006-02-07 19:16:21 UTC

Kubuntu-specific bug.

This will be better solved anyways by libxklavier.

Comment 11 Mats Ahlgren 2007-04-20 01:11:23 UTC

This bug is also happening in the SUSE 10.2 KDE repositories. Might anyone know the directories relevant in SUSE? (I do not have an xkb directory in my /etc/X11 folder)