Bug#268761: kdelibs-bin: Dead keys won't work until kdeinit is (re)started

[Robert Chéramy <robert@cheramy.net>]

Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:3.3.0-1.1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I use a french keyboard with dead keys on an ASUS laptop. These keys are
ignored under kde, so I get ^e instead of ê.

I have searched hours long where it could come from, and I have found
following clues:
- When I launch konsole from another konsole, dead keys work in the new
  konsole but still not in other applications.
- When I launch konsole/konqueror/... from kicker, root menu
  (right click on the wallpaper) dead keys won't work.
- When I start xterm (from konsole or kicker), dead keys work in this
  xterm
- When I launch kdeinit, dead keys work for this session in all new
  applications. Old applications (started before kdeinit) still don't
  have dead keys. kdeinit gives a lot of warnings because of undefined
  mimetypes but that's all :

$ kdeinit
kdeinit: Shutting down running client.
---------------------------------
It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure
that it is not already running, remove /home/tibob/.DCOPserver_topaze__0
and start dcopserver again.
---------------------------------

QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
KDE Daemon (kded) already running.
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'OpenOffice.org1.1/math.desktop' specifies
undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.math'
...
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'OpenOffice.org1.1/writer.desktop' specifies
undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-doc'


- When launching konsole from the text console (ctrl-alt-F1), dead keys
  won't work even if kdeinit has been started before.
- Reinstalling kde after purging configuration files won't help
- Dead keys work perfectly on my desktop computer, but I can't figure
  where the difference is.
- This is not a user configuration problem as I tried if it would work
  with blank new users. It doesn't :-/

I'm unsure this is the right package to post this bug report. kicker was
another candidate, but as the problem also exists with the root menu, I
preferred reporting this in the packege kdeinit belongs to.
I apologise if I am at the wrong place, please do not hesitate to
redirect this report to the right place !

Thanks for your help !

Robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.iso88591)

Versions of packages kdelibs-bin depends on:
ii  kdelibs4               4:3.3.0-1.1       KDE core libraries
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.16-6          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.2-1           A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                  2.3.2.ds1-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10    1.1.20final+rc1-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libfam0c102            2.7.0-5           client library to control the FAM 
ii  libfontconfig1         2.2.3-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libgcc1                1:3.4.1-7         GCC support library
ii  libice6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-6    Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11               0.5.2-3           GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.5.0-7         PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt          3:3.3.3-4         Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6    X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5             1:3.3.4-9         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-6    X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-6    X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxft2                2.1.2-6           FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2                2.6.11-3          GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1            0.8.3-7           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.8-4           XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  menu-xdg               0.1.1             freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii  netpbm                 2:10.0-5          Graphics conversion tools
ii  perl-suid              5.8.4-2           Runs setuid Perl scripts.
ii  python                 2.3.4-3sid        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xlibs                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6    X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.1.1-7       compression library - runtime

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