Bug 2874

Summary:	symbols/pc/us overrides RWIN, LWIN, MENU when 'us' layout is secondary group.
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Jim Ramsay <i.am>
Component:	Input/Keyboard	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	6.8.2
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Jim Ramsay 2005-03-31 12:08:30 UTC

To test these options, I used the following commandline:

  setxkbmap -option -option grp:rwin_toggle grp_led:scroll dvorak,us

In the cases of grp:rwin_toggle, grp:lwin_toggle, and grp:menu_toggle, I was
able to switch from dvorak to us, but not us to dvorak.

I also tried grp:toggle and grp:ctrl_shift_toggle, and these both seemed to work
properly, switching from dvorak to us and also us to dvorak.

The interesting thing is that switching the group order fixed the problem:

  setxkbmap -option -option grp:rwin_toggle grp_led:scroll us,dvorak

Worked properly, able to switch from us to dvorak and back again.

So perhaps this is some problem with the dvorak layout?

Comment 1 Jim Ramsay 2005-04-07 10:58:22 UTC

After further investigation, I have found that it is actually a problem with the
us symbols in symbols/pc/us:

If you set 'us' as the second group, it overrides any alternate group settings
(or probably others) because of the following:

xkb_symbols "basic" {

    name[Group1]= "US/ASCII";

    include "pc/pc(common)"

<snip>

Note that because it is including pc/pc(common) the keys on pc/pc(common)
override any subsequent modifiers setup by the primary group.

I removed this include line in my local installation, and have noticed no
problems with the us layout.  Even when using us layout alone (setxkbmap us
-option), the windows keys properly create Super_L and Super_R.

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2006-04-02 10:51:35 UTC

this should work just fine in xk-c

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