Bug 136855

Summary:	Problems with the @ and other "alt gr" combinations when using Dvorak keyboard layout
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Kenneth Aar <kenneth.aar>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Kenneth Aar 2005-12-04 20:41:19 UTC

Using the Dvorak keyboard layout there is a problem with the @ and other "alt gr"(like pound, dollar, euro, yen and so on) combinations

Dvorak keyboard layout is configured in both KDE control panel and in sax.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-06 10:33:36 UTC

sorry I don't understand the problem. If you don't mind provide
the following information:


   cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard | grep ^KEYTABLE

Comment 2 Kenneth Aar 2005-12-06 12:42:12 UTC

Nothing happens when I press the @ and other "alt
gr"(like pound, dollar, euro, yen and so on) combinations. Which makes it very difficult to write my email adress for instance.

Writing "cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard | grep ^KEYTABLE" in a console gives this result:
KEYTABLE="no-latin1.map.gz"

Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-06 15:51:12 UTC

Thanks for the information I assume our mapping table for Norwegian
layout is wrong. The command:

  /usr/sbin/xkbctrl no

prints:

$[
   "XkbLayout"    : "no",
   "XkbModel"     : "pc104",
   "Apply"        : "-layout no -model pc104"
]

Is this correct for your layout ? I don't know that but I assume 
pc105 is the correct layout. Could you please tell me if it works
for you if you replace pc104 with pc105 in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Thanks a lot

Comment 4 Kenneth Aar 2005-12-06 20:36:46 UTC

Here is the relevant section in my xorg.conf file
---
Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "no"
  Option       "XkbModel" "ltcd"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
EndSection
---
But changing this to pc104, or pc105 or many other variations does not help. Changing from dvorak to basic fixes the problem. But then I am back to querty layout.

This is what I get if I write: /usr/sbin/xkbctrl no
---
kenneth@linux:~> /usr/sbin/xkbctrl no
$[
   "XkbLayout"    : "no",
   "XkbModel"     : "pc104",
   "Apply"        : "-layout no -model pc104"
]
---

Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-07 09:29:09 UTC

Thanks for the information this seems to be bug in the XKB dvorak variant
I think at least the "include "level3(ralt_switch)" statement is missing
in xkb/symbols/pc/dvorak.

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2005-12-07 09:47:25 UTC

Kenneth, is this correct? Could you add it to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/no annd give me some feedback?

Comment 7 Kenneth Aar 2005-12-08 15:44:02 UTC

Hi

Sorry for the late reply.

Yes. Now it finally works.

Thank you very much!

Note: This is also an issue in the other scandinavian(norwegian, swedish and danish) dvorak files too.

Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2005-12-08 15:50:40 UTC

You've a workaround for you, but we want to fix this for the next distribution as well. :-) --> Reopening.

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2005-12-08 22:17:18 UTC

OOps. This has already been fixed in CVS of xkeyboard-config, so it's fixed for 10.1 Alpha4 since we already switched to CVS.