Bug#81115: marked as done (xlibs: [XKB] backspace and alt keys are wrong)
Your message dated Wed, 3 Sep 2003 04:22:27 -0500 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line xlibs-data: [xkb] alt and meta keys not consistent between pc101/pc102 and pc104/pc105 models has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 3 Jan 2001 04:27:55 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 02 22:27:55 2001 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from keysersoze.snurgle.org [216.254.65.91] (postfix) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14DfWl-0005qS-00; Tue, 02 Jan 2001 22:27:55 -0600 Received: by KeyserSoze.snurgle.org (Postfix, from userid 30466) id A5E158EE5; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:27:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Chiappa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xbase-clients: Keyboard settings are wacky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.3.7 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:27:36 -0500 (EST) X-BadReturnPath: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rewritten as [EMAIL PROTECTED] using Reply-To header Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.0.2-1 Severity: normal I don't exactly know when this got screwy...I have a debian unstable system that's a year or two old and the keyboard setup has deteriorated. At first, I just had to manually fix the backspace/delete issue (this was a minor irritation). Now, however, my Alt key by default seems to be generating an Alt keysym rather than a Meta keysym as is customary on PC keyboards. I've fixed this using gdm by adding the following to /etc/gdm/Init/Default: /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace' \ -e 'remove Mod1= Alt_L' \ -e 'keycode 0x40 = Meta_L' \ -e 'addMod4= Meta_L' While this has the desired effect that emacs, etc, see my left Alt key as a Meta key, X now ignores the left alt key so I need to make sure to use the right Alt key to switch VTs, kill X, etc. This behaviour occurs independant of whether I use startx or gdm to start X up. So I guess what I'm asking is, what might have gotten messed up that would cause this behavior (I'm pretty sure I haven't messed with any of the system-wide config files and my setup works on all other machines, including Debian ones) and/or what should I do to revert the configuration? The dpkg man page doesn't seem to suggest how I would force it to reinstall ie /etc/X11/xkb (--confnew doesn't do it). Apologies if this is confusing. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux KeyserSoze.snurgle.org 2.4.0-test10 #2 SMP Sun Nov 5 13:59:27 EST 2000 i686 unknown Versions of the packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp2.95.3-4 The GNU C preprocessor. ii libc6 2.2-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libfreetype6 2.0.1-1FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files ii libncurses55.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libxaw74.0.2-1X Athena widget set library ii xlibs 4.0.2-1X Window System client libraries ii xlibmesa3 4.0.2-1XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library ^^^ (Provides virtual package libgl1) --- Begin /etc/X11/Xmodmap (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/Xmodmap --- Begin /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase-clients (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase-clients --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres-color (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres-color ---
Bug#81115: marked as done (xlibs: [XKB] backspace and alt keys are wrong)
Your message dated Wed, 3 Sep 2003 04:22:27 -0500 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line xlibs-data: [xkb] alt and meta keys not consistent between pc101/pc102 and pc104/pc105 models has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 3 Jan 2001 04:27:55 + From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 02 22:27:55 2001 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from keysersoze.snurgle.org [216.254.65.91] (postfix) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14DfWl-0005qS-00; Tue, 02 Jan 2001 22:27:55 -0600 Received: by KeyserSoze.snurgle.org (Postfix, from userid 30466) id A5E158EE5; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:27:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Chiappa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xbase-clients: Keyboard settings are wacky To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: bug 3.3.7 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:27:36 -0500 (EST) X-BadReturnPath: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rewritten as [EMAIL PROTECTED] using Reply-To header Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.0.2-1 Severity: normal I don't exactly know when this got screwy...I have a debian unstable system that's a year or two old and the keyboard setup has deteriorated. At first, I just had to manually fix the backspace/delete issue (this was a minor irritation). Now, however, my Alt key by default seems to be generating an Alt keysym rather than a Meta keysym as is customary on PC keyboards. I've fixed this using gdm by adding the following to /etc/gdm/Init/Default: /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace' \ -e 'remove Mod1= Alt_L' \ -e 'keycode 0x40 = Meta_L' \ -e 'addMod4= Meta_L' While this has the desired effect that emacs, etc, see my left Alt key as a Meta key, X now ignores the left alt key so I need to make sure to use the right Alt key to switch VTs, kill X, etc. This behaviour occurs independant of whether I use startx or gdm to start X up. So I guess what I'm asking is, what might have gotten messed up that would cause this behavior (I'm pretty sure I haven't messed with any of the system-wide config files and my setup works on all other machines, including Debian ones) and/or what should I do to revert the configuration? The dpkg man page doesn't seem to suggest how I would force it to reinstall ie /etc/X11/xkb (--confnew doesn't do it). Apologies if this is confusing. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux KeyserSoze.snurgle.org 2.4.0-test10 #2 SMP Sun Nov 5 13:59:27 EST 2000 i686 unknown Versions of the packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp2.95.3-4 The GNU C preprocessor. ii libc6 2.2-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libfreetype6 2.0.1-1FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files ii libncurses55.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libxaw74.0.2-1X Athena widget set library ii xlibs 4.0.2-1X Window System client libraries ii xlibmesa3 4.0.2-1XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library ^^^ (Provides virtual package libgl1) --- Begin /etc/X11/Xmodmap (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/Xmodmap --- Begin /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase-clients (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/Xresources/xbase-clients --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Beforelight --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Clock-color --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres --- Begin /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres-color (modified conffile) Config file not present or no permissions for access --- End /etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres-color ---
