On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:32:06AM +0200, Filip Sneppe wrote: > This is a "me too" shout on this bug report. My AltGr also stopped > working after an upgrade. > > I normally run testing, but after finding out about #250629, I > tried to dpkg --purge --force-depends xlibs and then remove > everything from /etc/X11/xkb except /etc/X11/xkb/compiled > and /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp. No luck. > > Also tried "apt-get -o dpkg::options::="--force-confmiss" --reinstall > install xlibs" and restarting X as suggested in #235268. > Didn't help either. > > Finally, I upgraded X, xlibs, etc. to unstable, again > without success. > > This is the relevant output of xev: > > KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001, > root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 32655, (73,52), root:(1034,178), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001, > root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 32758, (73,52), root:(1034,178), > state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001, > root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 32855, (73,52), root:(1034,178), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001, > root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 32957, (73,52), root:(1034,178), > state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001, > root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 33061, (73,52), root:(1034,178), > state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > > KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xa00001, > root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 33153, (73,52), root:(1034,178), > state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" I can't reproduce this. When I switch to xfree86/pc105/be, I get ISO_Level3_Shift for keycode 113. > My default window manager is fluxbox without Gnome or KDE running. > > Also note that, if I start X as root, things work fine, This strongly -- overwhelmingly, in fact -- suggests that something in your user environment is changing the keymap. > although I must say that, when I was experimenting around, at some > point X as root also didn't have a working AltGr. I think the upgrade > from xlibs from testing to unstable fixed that. That's good. You're not experiencing the same bug as the submitter, then. All his AltGr problems went away upon reverting to stock XKB data files from the latest package. > But for my regular user account, things are still not working. > > Is there anything else I can try ? Study the fluxbox documentation and configuration, I guess. :( -- G. Branden Robinson | People with power understand Debian GNU/Linux | exactly one thing: violence. branden@debian.org | -- Noam Chomsky http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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