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Arbon
n00b
Joined: 08 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:35 pm Post subject: cant change keyboard layout |
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Hello
In my X-Server (better said, in gnome) i have an english keyboard layout, but i need the german one. writing with the english layout is a real pain!
In the console the german layout works fine, so the problem must be x-server related.
As i dont have a xorg.conf i configured the keyboard layout using those hal policy files. My keyboard file (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi) looks like the following
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arm@gentoo /etc/hal/fdi/policy $ cat 10-x11-input.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!-- Mouse configuration -->
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.mouse">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<!-- Keyboard configuration -->
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
<append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">de</merge>
<append key="input.xkb.options" type="strlist">compose:menu</append>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
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When trying to change the layout using gnome, or on gnome startup it gives me an error
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Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation
X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10605000
If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
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The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
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arm@gentoo ~ $ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "de", "de", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "evdev", "de", "de", ""
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- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
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arm@gentoo ~ $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
layouts = [de_DE]
options = [grp grp:alts_toggle]
model = pc105
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I dont really see any configurations mistakes, i hope you have a solution for this |
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:11 am Post subject: |
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Use only 'string', 'strlist' was the old type.
See /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst - there's no 'de' variant of
'de' layout. 'hal-setup-keymap' block is most probably redundant. |
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Arbon
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| After replacing the strlist with string and replacing the de variant with nodeadkeys the keyboard layout finally works. Thanks! |
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