Bug#81115: marked as done (xlibs: [XKB] backspace and alt keys are wrong)
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From: Chris Chiappa <griffon@localhost.snurgle.org>
Subject: xbase-clients: Keyboard settings are wacky
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Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.0.2-1
Severity: normal
I don't exactly know when this got screwy...I have a debian unstable system
that's a year or two old and the keyboard setup has deteriorated. At first,
I just had to manually fix the backspace/delete issue (this was a minor
irritation). Now, however, my Alt key by default seems to be generating an
Alt keysym rather than a Meta keysym as is customary on PC keyboards. I've
"fixed" this using gdm by adding the following to /etc/gdm/Init/Default:
/usr/bin/X11/xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace' \
-e 'remove Mod1 = Alt_L' \
-e 'keycode 0x40 = Meta_L' \
-e 'add Mod4 = Meta_L'
While this has the desired effect that emacs, etc, see my left Alt key as a
Meta key, X now ignores the left alt key so I need to make sure to use the
right Alt key to switch VTs, kill X, etc. This behaviour occurs independant
of whether I use startx or gdm to start X up. So I guess what I'm asking
is, what might have gotten messed up that would cause this behavior (I'm
pretty sure I haven't messed with any of the system-wide config files and my
setup works on all other machines, including Debian ones) and/or what should
I do to revert the configuration? The dpkg man page doesn't seem to suggest
how I would force it to reinstall ie /etc/X11/xkb (--confnew doesn't do it).
Apologies if this is confusing.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux KeyserSoze.snurgle.org 2.4.0-test10 #2 SMP Sun Nov 5 13:59:27 EST 2000 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 2.95.3-4 The GNU C preprocessor.
ii libc6 2.2-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libfreetype6 2.0.1-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libncurses5 5.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libxaw7 4.0.2-1 X Athena widget set library
ii xlibs 4.0.2-1 X Window System client libraries
ii xlibmesa3 4.0.2-1 XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library
^^^ (Provides virtual package libgl1)
--- Begin /etc/X11/Xmodmap (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/Xmodmap
--- Begin /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase-clients (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase-clients
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres-color (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres-color
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Viewres (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Viewres
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XCalc (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
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--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XCalc-color (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
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--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClipboard (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClipboard
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClock (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XClock
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XConsole (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XConsole
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XF86Cfg (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
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--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLoad (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLoad
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLogo (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLogo
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLogo-color (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLogo-color
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/XSm (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/XSm
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xditview (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xditview
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xditview-chrtr (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
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--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit-color (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit-color
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xfd (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xfd
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xgc (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xgc
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xmag (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xmag
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xmessage (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xmessage
--- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xvidtune (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
--- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xvidtune
--- Begin /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc (modified conffile)
Config file not present or no permissions for access
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
To: 81115-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: xlibs-data: [xkb] alt and meta keys not consistent between pc101/pc102 and pc104/pc105 models
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This bug was resolved upstream back in XFree86 4.2.0:
xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v1) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
[...]
* new upstream version
[...]
- alt key handling now consistent between pc101/102 and pc104/105
keymaps (Closes: #143683)
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:45:03 -0500
Also, to the best of my knowledge, XFree86's backspace key handling
continues to be compliant with Debian Policy on this subject.
Closing this bug.
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G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or,
Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will
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