Bug#333398: gnome: Weird behaviour of keyboard

[Benjamin Piwowarski]

Package: gnome
Severity: important


Having a laptop with a french keyboard and an USB keyboard with a
spanish one connected to it, I am experiencing weird problems with
the latter.
Everything is working well, except when I use the control key... Here is
the output of xev when pressing control + a:

KeyPress event, serial 26, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 18122034, (315,444), root:(317,536),
    state 0x4, keycode 24 (keysym 0x61, a), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (01) ""
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (01) ""
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3800001,
    root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 18122154, (315,444), root:(317,536),
    state 0x2004, keycode 24 (keysym 0x71, q), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 38
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (11) ""

This happens either with the french keyboard or the USB spanish one (only when I am in spanish keyboard, otherwise this works fine for the spanish keyboard)

I also tried to run KDE, and I experienced no problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)