Bug#273724: kcontrol (keyboard_layout): cannot activate compose key functionality
Package: kcontrol
Version: 4:3.2.2-1
Severity: normal
I go to the "Xkb options"*) tab in the keyboard_layout KControl module
and check the "Compose key" box and several subordinate boxes like "Use
menu key as compose key". After having pressed "Ok", all key presses
are ignored. (Or maybe only some key presses are ignored or key presses
are ignored only in certain situations. I don't remember exactly and I
don't want to try it right now, since I probably wouldn't be able to
finish this bug report then. :-))
After restarting KDE, the keyboard works again but no key is used as a
compose key. So the keyboard works exactly the way it had before when
no compose-key-related checkbox was checked.
If I enter
setxkbmap -option compose:ralt
or
setxkbmap -option compose:menu
manually in Konsole while KDE is running, the respective keys work as
compose keys. However, if I enter
setxkbmap -option compose:rwin
and press the right Windows key afterwards, I'm not able to enter
anything on the current Konsole anymore. If I switch to another running
Konsole, I'm able to enter characters and if I switch back to the first
Konsole, entering characters works again.
If I don't have KDE running, I'm also able to make the right Windows key
a compse key via directly using setxkbmap.
*) I use German localization. Throughout this whole bug report I will
translate the German texts back into English. The original English
texts might differ.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-pike
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages kcontrol depends on:
ii kdebase-data 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (shared data)
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libasound2 1.0.5-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ii libaudio2 1.6d-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-4.1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libraw1394-5 0.10.1-1 library for direct access to IEEE
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-4 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System event recording an
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime
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