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Bug#1040802: marked as done (xkb-data: Breaks altgr in Norwegian layout)

Your message dated Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:26:31 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #1040802,
regarding xkb-data: Breaks altgr in Norwegian layout
to be marked as done.

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Package: xkb-data
Version: 2.38-2
Severity: serious
Justification: makes a subset of systems effectively unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: none, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>

With commit 0fb34101788d84e9a1d98b3730cc7b9295e0f19b in
xkeyboard-config, `group(alts_toggle)` changed behaviour in a way such
that the right alt no longer generates altgr.  This is very problematic
with keyboard layouts such as Norwegian where that is required to type @
(altgr-2) or $ (altgr-4).

setxkmap no -print on my system outputs:

xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+no+inet(evdev)+level3(ralt_switch)+compose(caps)+group(alts_toggle)"        };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"     };
};

which includes the problematic toggle.  I don't know if the right fix is
to revert the relevant commit (reintroducing the problem in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/316)
or something else, but the current way it works is not great.

Happy to help debug this further, let me know what I can provide.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

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--- Begin Message --- Closing this bug, since the problem apparently was related to the user configuration.
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