Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:53:25
Message-Id: 200607032220.28550.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout by Luigi Pinna
1 Luigi Pinna wrote:
2 > Probably I found the problem:
3 > # setxkbmap -layout de -option "compose:menu,lv3:ralt_switch"
4 > Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
5
6 Googling for that line shows these threads:
7
8 http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2006-June/003552.html
9 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-05/msg00041.html
10 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-September/008855.html
11
12 The first one says that it is some error in Xorg itself, fixed in
13 more recent versions.
14
15 The second one suggests that you may have a mistaken symlink
16 somewhere as a result of downgrading.
17
18 The last one found this as a workaround:
19 setxkbmap -keycodes "xfree86" -types "default" -symbols "en_US(pc105)+de" -geometry "pc(pc102)"
20
21 > What does it means? I generated the default config file with the
22 > new xorgconfig... It must write already the right rules...
23
24 Please post the relevant section of your xorg.conf again, plus the
25 output of 'setxkbmap -print'.
26
27 Benno
28 --
29 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@××××××××××××.com>