Bug#792702: xkb-data: No dead_tilde even with legacy XKBVARIANT (layout de)
Package: xkb-data
Version: 2.12-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
Dear Maintainer,
after upgrading from wheezy to jessie the keyboard variant was changed
to nodeadkeys. But removing that XKBVARIANT entry did not change the
behaviour back to the former one, with ^ ~ ` ´ as deadkeys. Instead ~
didn't work as deadkey any more.
I then found out that the standard behaviour of the basic de keyboard
variant was changed to having only ^ ` ´ as deadkeys, but that the
original behaviour would be achieved by using the "legacy"
variant. This I did, but without any effect.
My /etc/default/keyboard contains:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT="legacy"
XKBOPTIONS=""
BACKSPACE="guess"
After using
udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
I would expect "~" to work as a deadkey, but it doesn't
(As workaround I changed in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de in the
section "basic" the line
key <AD12><>{ [ plus, asterisk, asciitilde, macron ]>};
to
key <AD12><>{ [ plus, asterisk, dead_asciitilde, macron ]>};
This works, but there should be a possibility to choose the original,
sensible behaviour in /etc/default/keyboard.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
-- no debconf information
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