Bug#425662: xserver-xephyr: gets keyboard shift functions mixed up

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: xserver-xephyr
> Version: 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using the command line
>
> Xephyr -query localhost :1 -ac -screen 1200x900
>
> to start a second KDE session under a second account. It frequently
> happens that the keyboard gets mixed up in a way that a normal
> character key emits a capital letter while a shifted character key
> emits a lower case letter. Special character keys work normally, and
> all the caps lock / shift lock key does it switching the keyboard
> light on and off. There seems to be no way to get out of this (at
> least I haven't found it yet) without terminating Xephyr.
>   

Could you check whether it is related to KDE, in case you change the
keyboard layout there? If you start an empty session in Xephyr, is the
keyboard layout behaving as in an empty session in X? Do you have other
keyboard settings, such as xmodmap in .xsession?

Brice