Issue 949: special keybindings do not work in X.org due to mix of xmodmap and setxkbmap - GRML issue tracker

Title	special keybindings do not work in X.org due to mix of xmodmap and setxkbmap
Priority	bug	Status	resolved
Superseder		Nosy List	mika
Assigned To		Topics	release-stopper

Created on 2010-12-16.15:58:28 by mika, last changed 2010-12-28.12:31:45 by mika.

Messages
msg3647 (view)	Author: mika	Date: 2010-12-28.12:31:45
Works as expected AFAICT, closing.
msg3646 (view)	Author: mika	Date: 2010-12-27.00:43:56
grml-etc 1.2.8 (available through grml-testing) provides the updated configurations (thanks to Ulrich) which are supposed to fix this issue. Keeping this issue open until final tests have been done.
msg3640 (view)	Author: mru	Date: 2010-12-26.01:17:30
Hm sorry, i dont see it. I think the line you are referring to is: [ -r $HOME/.Xmodmap ] && xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap \|\| setxkbmap us But this is correct as setxkbmap is only executed if xmodmap does not work. OTOH there was a problem in .Xmodmap that prevented that altgr+o worked. This should be fixed in the mru/fix_xmodmap branch
msg3638 (view)	Author: mika	Date: 2010-12-16.15:58:27
In /etc/skel/.xinitrc.d/grml_keyboard we have xmodmap $FILE and then a call to setxkbmap. This overrides special keys like AltGr+o giving "ö" usually. We either have to set the setxkbmap command before the xmodmap call or otherwise setup setxkbmap/xmodmap accordingly and the save output of "xmodma -pke" to the according files. JFTR: Needs to be checked on real/physical hardware to avoid any possible regressions within KVM/Virtualbox/....

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-12-28 12:31:45	mika	set	status: testing -> resolved messages: + msg3647
2010-12-27 00:43:57	mika	set	status: chatting -> testing messages: + msg3646
2010-12-26 01:17:31	mru	set	status: unread -> chatting messages: + msg3640
2010-12-16 15:58:28	mika	create