Bug 19897

Summary:	input.xkb.variant nodeadkeys is being ignored with two input.xkb.layouts
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Heiko Baums <heiko>
Component:	Input/evdev	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.4 (2008.09)
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Heiko Baums 2009-02-02 02:11:53 UTC

When only setting de as input.xkb.layout in /etc/hal/fdi/policies/10-keymap.fdi, input.xkb.variant nodeadkeys is working correctly. Every "deadkey" is shown at once.

This setting uses nodeadkey:
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">nodeadkeys</merge>

When setting additional keyboard layouts to input.xkb.layout like de,ru, input.xkb.variant nodeadkeys is ignored for de. Every "deadkey" is only shown when another key is pressed.

This setting ignores nodeadkeys completely:
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de,ru</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">nodeadkeys</merge>

nodeadkeys should work for every keyboard layout, which provides this keyboard variant, even if there are other additional keyboard layout settings, which don't provide this keyboard variant.

Comment 1 Heiko Baums 2009-02-02 02:13:42 UTC

I, of course, meant /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi.

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2009-02-02 03:18:00 UTC

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:11:53AM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote:
> When setting additional keyboard layouts to input.xkb.layout like de,ru,
> input.xkb.variant nodeadkeys is ignored for de. Every "deadkey" is only shown
> when another key is pressed.
> 
> This setting ignores nodeadkeys completely:
> <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">de,ru</merge>
> <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">nodeadkeys</merge>
> 
> nodeadkeys should work for every keyboard layout, which provides this keyboard
> variant, even if there are other additional keyboard layout settings, which
> don't provide this keyboard variant.

Your syntax is invalid.  Try 'nodeadkeys,' (without the quotes, of
course).

Comment 3 Heiko Baums 2009-02-02 07:21:20 UTC

I tried it, and X seems to work. But I didn't try switching between the keyboard layouts, because I haven't configured a hotkey. I'm usually using the DE's keyboard layout switcher. But the Xfce Keyboard Layout plugin crashes with this corrected hal configuration.

I filed a bug report there:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4889

I think, I can close this bug as invalid.

Thanks for the hint.

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