Bug#357480: xlibs: Confusion between latam and la keyboard

[roadmr@entropia.com.mx]

Sure. During initial system installation a list of keyboard layouts comes
up. I select "latinamerican" from this list and as I mentioned, text mode
gets configured correctly for latin american keyboard.

When I start X, I find that the layout is incorrect (typing gives
garbage). I had to do some digging to find out how to work around this
problem.

What I had to do is run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". This brings up a
series of questions about server configuration. At some point I get a
prompt asking to "please select keyboard layout" with a text field. Now,
it used to be the case that "la" meant "latin american", and this is how
the system installation configures it. However, for X, the latinamerican
layout is called "latam" (which is what should be entered here) and "la"
now corresponds to laos; this is where the problem originates.

Layout files are apparently in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc ; I checked them
and found out about the problem by reading "la" which contains some
references to Laos.

Thanks a lot for looking into this problem!

 - Daniel

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:16:35AM -0600, Daniel Manrique wrote:
>> Package: xlibs
>> Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
>> Severity: important
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>> For some reason the xlibs package has a "la" keyboard layout
>> corresponding to the "Laos" keyboard; this is different from the rest
>> of the system configuration which assumes "la" means "latinamerican".
>> Thus, when initially configuring the system and selecting "la", one
>> gets a latinamerican layout in text mode, but a Laos keyboard in
>> graphical mode, thus rendering X effectively unusable.
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> Can you please tell which tool assumes that "la" means "latinamerican"?
>
> Denis
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