Bug 1328 - [XKB] Behaviour change in 6.8.0 relating to (bad) XkbLayout settings
Summary: [XKB] Behaviour change in 6.8.0 relating to (bad) XkbLayout settings
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Input/Keyboard (show other bugs)
Version: 6.8.0
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high minor
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2004-09-10 12:58 UTC by Daniel Drake
Modified: 2006-04-01 16:37 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Drake 2004-09-10 12:58:21 UTC 
In Xorg 6.7.0, the following section of xorg.conf worked fine:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "uk"
EndSection

On upgrading to 6.8.0, the above settings still produce a UK keyboard layout,
but the Ctrl+alt+F-keys don't change to virtual terminals like they should.

I'm aware that by using the "uk" setting, its probably pulling in layout info
from "keymaps/sun" which is deprecated. Just thought I would give a heads-up
since this is probably an unintentional behaviour-change between the two versions?

Changing "XkbLayout" to "gb" solves the problem - UK-specific keys still work,
and Ctrl+alt+f1 changes to vt/1 as expected.

Also see: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63471
Comment 1 Gilles Pelletier 2005-04-29 06:58:32 UTC 
Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
60802000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2006-04-02 10:37:38 UTC 
the 'uk' keymap is intended for the Ukraine, not Great Britain.

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