[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#490410: Bug#490410: xfce4-xkb-plugin: Same issue with us, cz keyboard layout, more details, workaround

[jen at jikos.cz (Jan Capek)]

Hi,

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:

> On mer, 2008-09-17 at 03:04 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Could you try:
> > > > - start X and Xfce and don't type anything (for example using
> > startx
> > > >   /usr/bin/startxfce4)
> > > 
> > >     This still gives me the problem, where the plugin loads only the
> > US 
> > >     keyboard, not reflecting what is in xorg.conf
> >  
> > Confirmed (this is also my default)
> > 
> > > > - start X, type some stuff, then start xfce4-panel (for example
> > using
> > > >   gdm or any dm)
> > >     X is started via gdm, there are tons of characters typed when
> > logging 
> > >     in. Layout switching is already active there and works (tested).
> > Then 
> > >     after successful login xfce is started (probably via Xsession.d
> > and 
> > >     that whole path - not an expert here) and the xkb plugin is
> > still 
> > >     confused. I hope I understood this test correctly.
> > 
> > Not confirmed. For me it works ok when using gdm.
> 
> Andrei:
> Ok so in your case, your hitting the ?no keypress before init?. Not sure
> if there's already a bug opened, I'll point you to it later.
> 
> Jan:
> For your case, that's another story, and thus another bug. What puzzles
> me is that when you described the situation in your first mail, it was
> kind of exactly that (no init before keypresses).
> When you say that layout switching is working *before* Xfce is run, how
> do you try that?
I meant the gdm - which is already an instance of X, right? In the login 
dialogue in gdm, I am able to switch keyboard layouts using the shortcut 
specified in my xorg.conf (see below for the relevant snippet).

Cheers,

Jan


relevant part of my xorg.conf:

-----------------------------
Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"microsoftprousb"
    	Option    	"XkbLayout"     "us,cz"
    	Option    	"XkbVariant"    ",qwerty"
    	Option    	"XkbOptions"    
"grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection
-----------------------------

Please, note that it if I specify e.g. 'de,cz' instead of 'us,cz' in the 
xorg.conf, the xfce4-panel would start the plugin but the plugin would see 
the default 'us' layout. I am wondering if this whole thing could be some 
unfortunate synchronization issue during the whole startup sequence that 
causes the plugin to get the wrong information from X..