Bug#252566: Bingo! ... :) [Re: Bug#252566: xbase-clients: Bug #252566]

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

Hi Denis. Hi All

The bug's seems to be gone here. Details below ...

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 14:18, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:31:06PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> [...]

     [ ... ]
> 
> 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 = []


First the commands, as they were run previously here, and its latest
output here, to clarify the issue:

$ xkbcomp -o - :0 | grep xkb_symbols
xkb_symbols "macintosh/us(extended)+macintosh/de(nodeadkeys)" {

$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xfree86", "macintosh", "de", "nodeadkeys", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xfree86", "macintosh", "de", "nodeadkeys", ""

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


And /var/log/gdm/:0.log does not show the "Type "TWO_LEVEL" has 2
levels, but [ ... ]" warning any more.

This is what I changed before:

In Gnome:
Opening
Applications ---> System Tools ---> Configuration Editor

Changed in
desktop --> gnome --> peripherals --> keyboard --> xkb

this entry
model  acpi

to that one
model macintosh


Seems we can close this issue. If no one minds ... :)

> 
> 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, 

                     [ .... ]

I hope you're right. 
But IIRC I had ugly problems here sometimes related to the keyboard,
whose details I can't remember exactly right now. But I think the
keyboard at times only printed capitals ... I think this happened on
console *and* xterm-like apps .... not quite sure. I'll wait and see
whether this issue is history now .... 

Anyway: Thanks, Denis, for your help to solve this issue. And to
everyone else contributing to this thread. It definitely helped, as it
seems ... :)

Best Regards
Wolfgang
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