Re: Dead keys won't work

[Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
> 	I couldn't use dead keys to produce letter with diacritical
> accents, nor get the Command key to act as Meta.  I've got a beige G3
> with US ADB keyboard.  Can anyone give any tips?
>
> 	It's a long, long story.  Initially I had:
>
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"macintosh"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us_intl"
> 	Option		"XkbOptions"	"altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu"
> EndSection
>
>
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
>
> (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
> (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
> (**) Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> (**) XKB: model: "macintosh"
> (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
> (**) XKB: layout: "us_intl"
> (**) Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu"
> (**) XKB: options: "altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu"
> (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
>
>
> /var/log/dmesg:
>
> adb: starting probe task...
> adb devices: [2]: 2 2 [3]: 3 1
> ADB keyboard at 2, handler set to 3
> Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI.
> input: ADB keyboard on adb2:2.02/input
>
>
>
> ~ $ xprop -root | grep XKB
> CUT_BUFFER3(STRING) = "(**) |-->Input Device \"Generic Keyboard\"\n(**) Option \"XkbRules\" \"xfree86\"\n(**) XKB: rules: \"xfree86\"\n(**) Option \"XkbModel\" \"macintosh\"\n(**) XKB: model: \"macintosh\"\n(**) Option \"XkbLayout\" \"us_intl\"\n(**) XKB: layout: \"us_intl\"\n(**) Option \"XkbOptions\" \"altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu\"\n(**) XKB: options: \"altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu\"\n(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled\n"
> CUT_BUFFER0(STRING) = "xprop -root | grep XKB"
> _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "macintosh", "us_intl", "", "altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu"
> _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "macintosh", "us_intl", "", "altwin:meta_win,altwin:menu"
>
> ~ $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
>  layouts = [us_intl]
>  model = macintosh
>  overrideSettings = false
>  options = [altwin	altwin:menu]
>
> ~ $ dpkg -l xbase-clients libxklavier10 xserver-xfree86 capplets
> Desejado=U=Desconhecido/Instalar/Remover/aPagar/H=Manter
> | status=Não/Instalado/arquiv.-Config./U=Descomp./Falhou-config/H=semi-inst.
> |/ Erro?=(nenhum)/H=Mantido/precisa-Reinst./X=os dois problemas (status,Erro: maiúsculas=ruim)
> ||/ Nome            Versão         Descrição
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ||/ Nome             Versão          Descrição
> +++-================-================-================================================
> ii  xbase-clients    4.3.0.dfsg.1-12  miscellaneous X clients
> ii  libxklavier10    2.0-0.1          X Keyboard Extension high-level API
> ii  xserver-xfree86  4.3.0.dfsg.1-12  the XFree86 X server
> ii  capplets         2.10.1-1         configuration applets for GNOME 2 - binaries files
>
> ~ $ uname -a
> Linux dutra.dutras.dyndns.org 2.6.7-powerpc #1 Thu Jun 24 14:31:23 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
>
> ~ $ 
>
>
> 	Then I did some fiddling with gnome-keyboard-properties.
> Strangely almost every time I change something there, my Gnome theme
> switches to some default (ugly) theme and back.  I managed to get
> accented characters, but I lost the right Alt (Option) key and I still
> can't use the Command (Apple) key as Meta.
>
> 	At this moment I got:
>
> ~ $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
>  layouts = [us_intl,en_US]
>  model = macintosh
>  overrideSettings = false
>  options = [grp	grp:alts_toggle,altwin	altwin:meta_win]
I don't know if this will help you, but I made option to act as alt_meta 
on my PB G4 (not a system wide setting, though this would be nice), and 
I can write with diacritics in Romanian.

I have in /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/options = [lv3 
lv3:lwin_switch,grp grp:alts_toggle]

Note that I don't use dead keys.


PS:
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/layouts = [ro ro_us,us]
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/model = macintosh
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/overrideSettings = false
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb/update_handlers = []

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Regards,
EddyP
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