Bug#600490: Russian phonetic layout on a jp keyboard?

[Dima Pasechnik <dimpase@gmail.com>]

On 29 November 2010 07:36, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
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>> yes. In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf I used to have, in the keyboard section,
>> Option "XkbLayout" "jp,ru(phonetic)"
>> Option "XkbVariant" "jp106"
>> and it worked.
>> Now I can select Russia Phonetic keyboard in Gnome Keyboard
>> Preferences, but then I am stuck with Cyrillic characters only - the
>> switching does not work. The only way out is to remove this keyboard
>> choice and restart X.
>
> Did you try to put the same kind of parameter as xorg.conf into
> /etc/default/keyboard? It should be working exactly the same as
> xorg.conf (except that it'll additionally work on the linux console
> too!)

Just tried it, and yes, it does fix the problem! Thank you for your time.

I still get an occasional gnome popup indicating an xkb error.
It asks to provide the following outputs:
$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "acpi", "jp,ru", "",
"grp:alt_shift_toggle"
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "acpi", "jp,ru(phonetic)", "",
"grp:alt_shift_toggle"

$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd
 layouts = [jp	jp106]
 options = [terminate	terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,grp	grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp	grp:alt_space_toggle,grp	grp:menu_toggle,grp	grp:sclk_toggle]
 model = toshiba_s3000

Note jp106 string in gconftool-2.
I do not know where it comes from (do I still have an old config file
lying around?) and whether it is harmless.

The model string content there is totally random, of course, and has
nothing to do with the real keyboard.

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Best,
Dmitrii