Hi Mario, Alan, the swapped german keys issue should be fixed in next build snv_101a/OpenSolaris RC1 .. The fix was already integrated ..
As a background for this, g11n team made some changes as part of our xserver keyboard layouts strategy which has two phases. First one is to separate "SUN" and "Community" standards. So full set of layouts was created under "/usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/sun/". If you set up in your xorg.conf keyboard type as "Sun Type *" layouts from ../symbols/sun dir will be used. For other types of keyboards layouts from ../symbols are used. Phase two is to sync keyboard layouts with latest community stuff, this should give us many new layouts and up to date maps, while we will still be able to keep SUN standards untouched, which is important as far as we ship Sun Type hardware keyboard to customers. The work on phase 1 is done now, we are sorry for issue with german layout. It was cause by migration of lot of data. Now we can work on phase 2 and hopefully we will have a lot of new layouts and variants soon. Beside that g11n team is also working on enhancements for IIIM framework. If everything goes well there will be GUI tool to customize keyboard layout used by IIIMF in OpenSolaris 2009.04 so every user can very easily modify the layout to individual needs. Thanks & Regards, Petr H. On 10/31/08 01:46, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Mario Goebbels wrote: > >> After installing the snv_100 repository update on OpenSolaris, I've ended up >> with a broken german keyboard layout. All special characters appeared to >> work, except Y and Z were switched. So instead of a QWERTZ, I suddenly had a >> german QWERTY. XkbLayout was set, so that wasn't it. I've ended up copying >> all of /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb from snv_99 over the current system to fix it. >> The change logs on the community site don't show anything special, so I'm >> not sure what happened. >> > > Keymaps, even XKB ones, go through the Globalization consolidation, > so don't show up on the X change log. > > I don't know what change introduced this bug, but it's a known bug > that should be fixed in snv_101a: > > 6761290 [Xorg] German Keyboard Layout: z and y keys exchanged (qwerty instead > of > qwertz) > > -- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Petr Hruska - Software Engineer - Prague G11n Phone: +420 233 009 330 (x49330) email: petr.hruska at sun.com Sun Microsystems Czech, s.r.o. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
