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Bug#388694: marked as done (xkb-data: XkbLayout says US but is actually UK keyboard)

Your message dated Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:14:41 +1000
with message-id <451668A1.2020303@debian.org>
and subject line Bug#388694: xkb-data: XkbLayout says US but is actually UK keyboard
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: xkb-data
Version: 0.8-12
Severity: normal

Hi,

I have just installed Debian sid on a new computer.  The keyboard has a US
layout (in particular, it has an @ above the 2).  I have it set to a US layout,
but it is behaving as though it has a UK layout (" above the 2).

My xorg.conf says the following:

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
   Driver          "kbd"
   Option          "CoreKeyboard"
   Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
   Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
   Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection


My /var/log/Xorg.0.log has the following:

helen:~> grep -b5 -a5 XkbLayout /var/log/Xorg.0.log
38767-(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
38801-(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
38831-(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: "xorg"
38871-(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
38902-(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc104"
38943:(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
38972:(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
39011-(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
39046-(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
39093-(**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
39131-(**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
39180-(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"


I don't know what's going on.

Please let me know if I can provide any more useful information.

Helen


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Hi,

Denis Barbier wrote:

[...]

> Another program (GNOME/KDE/xmodmap/whatever) can override your settings.
> Running
>   $ xprop -root | grep XKB
> should normally display
>   _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc104", "us", "", ""
> in your case.

Ahh, thanks for the tip.  I ran
	$ xprop -root | grep XKB
got
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "",
"ctrl:ctrl_aa,lv3:win_switch,compose:ralt,altwin:meta_alt"

and concluded that kde had overwritten my X settings.  Then a quick hunt through
the KDE control centre has the problem fixed.

Don't think I set KDE to a UK keyboard (in fact I would not have, knowing that
this keyboard is a US one), but I may have told KDE to prefer UK english
spellings, or something.  Maybe that is what did it.

Thanks again,

Helen

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