[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Hello

I'm not sure how to specify the topic in more detail. Over the last to hours I 
tried to get KDE4 to behave like it did before I rebuilt my system. My goal is 
to have a German layout with dead keys. In the process I've even gotten the 
system to react to the menu key again. But apart from that, for some reason, 
KDE4 won't behave like I want it to.

I say KDE4 because KDE3 apparently works. I know because login with KDM4 
doesn't work at the moment, so I'm using KDM3. There I can input accented 
letters of all sorts (in the username input field). But not in KDM4 and not in 
my KDE4 environment.

I also tried it with and without KDE's own keyboard layout settings, where I 
set up a de layout of default variant (thus with dead keys). But to no avail.

Here's the content of my hal config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbRules" type="string">evdev</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">evdev</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">de</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.options" 
type="strlist">menu:Multi_key,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

It worked before[TM], and I have no idea where else to look. Any ideas please?
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