Bug#439491: /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties: Please support japanese keyboard on PowerBook3, 2.

[Charles Plessy]

retitle 439491 'Legacy "latin" option of jp106 makes some keys unresponsive'
thanks

Le Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:13:42AM +0200, Sven Arvidsson a écrit :
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 19:10 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > on a PowerBook3,2 with japanese keyboard, the backslash/underscore key
> > does not work. Its keycode is 211. It seems that one can not use
> > setxkbmap to fix this, and that it is not possible to disable GNOME
> > management of the keyboard. Would it be easy to assign backslash and
> > underscore to keycode 211 in GNOME ?
> 
> Doesn't any of the available layouts / layout options in
> gnome-keyboard-properties work for you?

Hi,

jp106 is definitely the layout of my keyboard. However, after
investigation, I realised that I had a
	Option	"XkbVariant"    "latin"
line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and that this option was in the meantime
abandonned.

Suppressing it solved the problem. This option was necessary in the past
because otherwise the keyboard would have output japanese characters by
default (the vast majority of japanese users input japanese using latin
characters). I think that I installed Debian on this computer before the
release, but I am not sure. If this option was added by default on
install, it may mean that upgrades to later versions of xkb-data can
lead to this problem on other computers.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan