FS#42406 - [gdm] Messed up keyboard layout when using 3.14.1-1
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Opened by Tassilo Horn (tsdh) - Thursday, 16 October 2014, 14:38 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 16 October 2014, 16:44 GMT
Opened by Tassilo Horn (tsdh) - Thursday, 16 October 2014, 14:38 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 16 October 2014, 16:44 GMT
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Description:
I use Gnome with GDM for quite some time. Today, I updated from Gnome 3.12.x to 3.14.1. However, when I log in to Gnome from GDM as I've always done, my keyboard layout is messed up. I use the German Dvorak layout. The letter and number keys are all ok, but... - AltGr is another return - Super_L is non-functional and xev reports it as "keycode 133 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol)" - the up-arrow is now <print>, and the other arrows are also broken - etc, etc And this really seems to be GDM's fault. When I just startx from a VT with "exec gnome-session" in my ~/.xinitrc, the keyboard layout is as it should be. I've set the severity to high because with GDM Gnome is completely unusable for me but without it essential features like being able to lock the screen are not available. I'm happy to provide any further information on request. |
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appear at first.
When I startx and the keyboard layout works just fine I can mess it up simply
by issuing the command
setxkbmap -layout de -variant dvorak -model evdev -rules xorg -option ctrl:nocaps
Well, that's the command I've used for years for setting up my keyboard layout
and it always worked fine...
Looking at the pacman.log I see that with the gnome upgrade today there was a
new package pulled as a dependency for mutter with the suspicious name
extra/libxkbcommon-x11. Maybe the problem is somewhere in that...
sane. I've had
-layout de -variant dvorak -model evdev -rules xorg -option ctrl:nocaps
in /etc/X11/Xkbmap which is executed by GDM scripts, and then the "-rules xorg"
caused the pain. So basically this report can be closed as "user error".