Bug#481364: xkb-data: Stock keyboard layout broken

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 17:05:53 +0200, eric@boese-wolf.eu wrote:

> The stock keyboard layout loaded with xorg.conf entry 
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
>     Driver         "kbd"
>     Option         "CoreKeyboard"
>     Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
>     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option         "XkbLayout" "de"
>     Option         "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> EndSection
> 
> is completely broken. To get Mode_switch to work correctly 

Broken how?

> and having no problems with broken modifiers, I had to load
> 
> remove mod4 = Super_L
> remove mod4 = Hyper_L
> clear mod1
> clear mod5
> keycode 93 =
> keycode 124 =
> keycode 125 =
> keycode 126 =
> keycode 127 =
> keycode 128 =
> keycode 156 =
> keycode 214 =
> 
> keycode 113 = Mode_switch
> add mod4 = Super_L
> add mod3 = Super_R
> add mod1 = Alt_L
> 
> each time I start X. (.xsession does load my .Xmodmap).
> 
> Without this I had not been able to type a \ or | in an xterm.
> 
Can you attach your Xorg.0.log? also please send the output of
"setxkbmap -print", and of "setxkbmap -v 10 -model pc105 -layout de
-variant nodeadkeys".

Cheers,
Julien