[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#633622: remap doesn't take effect

[Volkan YAZICI]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:40:52 +0200, Michael Schutte writes:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:55:11PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>>   $ cat /etc/default/keyboard | grep -vE "^($|#)"
>>   XKBMODEL="pc105"
>>   XKBLAYOUT="tr"
>>   XKBVARIANT=""
>>   XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"
>>   $ . /etc/default/keyboard
>>   $ diff <(ckbcomp -model $XKBMODEL $XKBLAYOUT $XKBVARIANT) \
>>   >      <(ckbcomp -model $XKBMODEL $XKBLAYOUT $XKBVARIANT ctrl:nocaps)
>>   WARNING: Can not find "ctrl:nocaps" in "tr".
>
> Yeah, of course I didn’t think of that …  Sorry to bother you, but could
> you please try again with
>
> 	$ diff <(ckbcomp -model "$XKBMODEL" "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT") \
> 	       <(ckbcomp -model "$XKBMODEL" "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" ctrl:nocaps)
>
> Still, your settings produce the desired effect for me, but I currently
> don’t have access to a Squeeze system – I cannot rule out that the
> problem you experience went away sometime after the release.

  $ . /etc/default/keyboard
  $ diff <(ckbcomp -model "$XKBMODEL" "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT") \
  >      <(ckbcomp -model "$XKBMODEL" "$XKBLAYOUT" "$XKBVARIANT" ctrl:nocaps)
  59c59
  < keycode 58 = CtrlL_Lock CtrlL_Lock CtrlL_Lock CtrlL_Lock ...
  ---
  > keycode 58 = Control Control Control Control Control Control ...

But pay attention that, above output is taken from the machine where I
manually set "keycode 58" in /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz to a
sequence of "Control"s.


Best.