Bug#252566: xbase-clients: Bug #252566

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:31:06PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
> > > But I remember having had connected the Powerbook to an x86 machine, via
> > > nfs and a router, for file sharing purposes ... some months ago ...
> > 
> > I am currently trying to guess
> 
> No need to guess: Please let me know what you need to know about my
> settings here ...

I did not know where to look at exactly, that's the problem ;)

> >  your settings in order to reproduce your
> > problem.  If your initial settings in XF86Config-4 were causing trouble,
> > these error messages would be logged into /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> 
> .. a quick grep 
> grep -irs TWO_LEVEl /var/log/
> gave results only for
> /var/log/gdm/:0.log*
> 
> > Since they are stored in /var/log/gdm/:0.log this means that:
> >  a. An application modified your settings
> 
> ... modified which settings? Those that are normally determined by
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? And who or what did modify it .... ?

Right, X is launched and reads settings from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4,
but these settings are overridden afterwards.

> >  b. You are certainly using GNOME ;)
> 
> Positive .. :)
> 
> > 
> > Can you please send the output of the three following commands?
> >   xkbcomp -o - :0 | grep xkb_symbols
> 
> $ xkbcomp -o - :0 | grep xkb_symbols
> xkb_symbols "pc/pc(pc105)+pc/de(nodeadkeys)+inet(acpi)" {
> 
> 
> >   xprop -root | grep XKB
> 
> $ xprop -root | grep XKB
> _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "macintosh", "de", "nodeadkeys", ""
> _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "acpi", "de", "nodeadkeys", ""

Never see this backup thing before, quite nice.  It clearly shows
that your settings have been altered from
  XkbModel   macintosh
  XkbLayout  de
  XkbVariant nodeadkeys
(which come from your XF86Config-4) to
  XkbModel   acpi
  XkbLayout  de
  XkbVariant nodeadkeys
These settings are indeed those reported by xprop above.

> >   gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
> 
> $ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb      
>  layouts = [de  nodeadkeys]
>  model = acpi
>  overrideSettings = false
>  options = []

And here is the culprit, these are GNOME settings.
If you want, you can change these settings with gconftool-2 (no idea
how) or gnome-keyboard-properties from the gnome-capplets package.

I am pretty sure that these warnings are harmless, but am still
unable to reproduce them :(

Denis