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

[YoYo siska]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:30:49PM +0100, YoYo siska wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:49:04PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I think taht KDE4 do not touch your initial keyboard settings (xorg.conf or
> hal,...) unless  you change something in its keyboard config
> (systemsettings ->regional&language->keyboard layout )
> maybe that you have wrong keyboard set explicitly there?
>
> I have "disable keyboard layouts" under the "layout" tab selected,
> but I can't say if it really works correctly (keeps the X
> configuration defaults) right now, because I can't restart X right now,
> and I change between
> 'setxkbmap -option grp:shifts_toggle sk,us qwerty,'
> and a simple
> 'setxkbmap us'
> with some scripts, because the dual layout confuses some apps like
> synergy, x2x, rdesktop, even some vnc clients...
>
>
> what happens if you you type "setxkbmap de" in an terminal (konsole,
> xterm,...) after kde starts up?


and of course you can check your current settings with 
setxkbmap -print

yoyo