Bug#252913: capplets: New keyboard configuration tools mess up
french keyboards
Itay Ben-Yaacov
Itay Ben-Yaacov <nib_maps@yahoo.com>, 252913@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 05 Jun 2004 15:54:55 -0700
Package: capplets
Version: 1:2.6.1-3
Severity: important
Tags: sid
Since switching to Gnome 2.6, I have a funny phenomenon: whenever I
have among my layouts a French one, I get Alt_R mapped to Mod5 (in
addition to to Mod1). Thus, I get the following from xmodmap:
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x73), Super_R (0x74)
mod5 Alt_R (0x71)
This breaks lots of things, among which Alt-Tab window switching under
sawfish. Once I remove French from the list, I get a normal behaviour:
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x73), Super_R (0x74)
mod5
I tried this on two laptops, on both getting the same behaviour. Now,
given that one of these laptops actually has a French keyboard, this
is a major nuisance. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Itay
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2.3.4.1
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages capplets depends on:
ii capplets-data 1:2.6.1-3 configuration applets for GNOME 2
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.6.1-3 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii gnome-desktop-data 2.6.1-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii gnome-icon-theme 1.2.1-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gnome-panel 2.6.1-4 Launch and/or dock GNOME 2 applica
ii gnome-session 2.6.1-5 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libasound2 1.0.4-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-3 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.0-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libeel2-2 2.6.2-1 Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgail-common 1.4.1-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail17 1.4.1-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt7 1.1.90-1.1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.6.1-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1-3 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls10 1.0.4-3 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 0.7-1 library for common error values an
ii libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 0.8.1-3 Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii libgstreamer0.8-0 0.8.1-2 Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmetacity0 1:2.8.1-3 Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii libnautilus2-2 2.6.2-1 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstartup-notification0 0.6-2 library for program launch feedbac
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.7-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxklavier8 1.02-2 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.6.10-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii nautilus 2.6.2-1 file manager and graphical shell f
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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