Bug 55614

Summary: KDE 3.1 seems to ignore kxkb / keyboard mappings
Product: [Unmaintained] kxkb Reporter: Ben Tels <bzt>
Component: generalAssignee: Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: thiago
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ben Tels 2003-03-06 16:55:47 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc-2.95.3 Used --with-gnu-ld and --enable-final
OS:          Linux

This is a very curious bug and I'm not sure if it's a problem in kxkb or in all of KDE (or another part of it). But basically, KDE seems to ignore the keyboard layout and variant I have chosen using the kxkb utility.

My settings are for a U.S. English 105-key keyboard with the right Alt remapped to ModeSwitch, so that RAlt+e is the Euro sign. And that is what kxkb reports under KDE 3.1 (which is why I'm not sure where the bug is exactly). However, no matter what the application (kate, kwrite, but also OpenOffice and Opera, etc.), RAlt+e either does nothing or opens the Edit menu!

I also checked using xset and that reported an en_US layout and pc101 variant, so that's not good either. But the really bizarre thing is that, when I start remapping using xmodmap, it doesn't have any effect -- KDE just keeps on ignoring the change. It's almost as if the layout had been hardcoded somewhere.

Hope you can fix this...

Ben.
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2003-03-06 20:11:16 UTC 
I've been changing my keyboard layout with kxkb and setxkbmap and it works fine. Check with 
xkbcomp if your keyboard mapping is indeed correct. 
 
XFree86 4.3.0 and betas seem to come with some erroneous XKB definition files.
Comment 2 Ben Tels 2003-03-07 00:11:46 UTC 
 xkbcomp reports no errors at warning level 10, neither 
with -xkb nor with -xkm. Also, I wouldn't have expected 
any errors -- I am using these same layout files under 
KDE 3.0.5, after all. 
 
Also, I came by these layout definitions by editing 
existing ones, so I doubt it has anything to do with 
erroneous files from XFree -- not to mention (soory for 
leaving this out in the first place) that I'm running XFree86 
4.2.0 and not 4.3.0 or a beta.
Comment 3 Maksim Orlovich 2003-03-07 02:12:04 UTC 
I've seen the same problems with XF4.3; either no effect on switching of the switching doesn't 
quite workr ight, while invoking setxkbmap seems to work fine for me
Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2003-03-17 21:07:17 UTC 
As the reporter originally said this problem occurs with non KDE applications, I don't 
think this is a KDE problem. It's more likely to be just an XFree86 one. kxkb doesn't 
allow you all the flexibility setxkbmap does, so you're restricted to a small set of 
keyboard layouts.
Comment 5 Andriy Rysin 2003-05-04 22:08:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55866 ***