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Bug#524235: Default alt-gr key replacement should be right alt for usa keyboard.



On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:46:42PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> 
> Meh, I just read Anton's reply to Frans, and I realized I read Frans'
> message a bit too quickly. He uses AltGr as Compose, but I actually type
> AltGr+e to get é!! Because of the "altgr-intl" variant, of course. It be
> really great that such usage doesn't get broken, in case you weren't
> aware it exists.

Console-setup must support everything X supports, here we are talking 
only for default settings that will allow less questions to be asked 
with high priority.

If there is xorg.conf with correct settings, they will be used - 
alt-intl, basic, whatever, and they will work. Otherwise (i.e. there is 
no xorg.conf), the settings of console-data will be used.  Both your 
keyboard settings and those of Frans are not supported by console-data 
so you both will have to use dpkg-reconfigure after the install of 
console-setup.

The bad variant is when some user (like Frans) uses the graphical 
environment to customize the keyboard, leaving wrong settings in 
xorg.conf.  In this case after the install of console-setup the console 
will be broken because console-setup will use the settings from 
xorg.conf for its defaults.

Anton Zinoviev




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