reassign 439491 xkb-data thanks On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:15 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > 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?
> 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. I'm reassigning this to xkb-data, I'm sure the maintainers can figure out if this is the expected behaviour or a bug. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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