also sprach Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [2004.07.20.2012 +0200]: > as suggested in an earlier thread[1]: `setxkbmap us` (or whatever variant > you're using -- for a good time, try `setxkbmap dvorak` ;) heh. sorry for not having checked the archives. it was too surreal for me to experience to even think that this may happen twice. also, the machine in question is being really wicked lately. anyway, my problem appears way before I even get an xterm. it's already present in xdm. sucks if your login name contains one of the broken characters... nevertheless, I am using the us keymap, and XF86Config-4 is correctly configured. I also see it in the logs: (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" it's cool to have a workaround, but i think we need to fix the bug at a deeper level. what the heck is going on? and why 'c' and 'e'? sounds like a corruption of the keyboard map files to me. or something like that... cheers, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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