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From: Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:08:46
Message-Id: DD6478F8-31CD-4F93-967A-96465EE9E982@iki.fi
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: An alternative keyboard layout is lost by Gevisz
1 > On Oct 18, 2014, at 21:04, Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
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4 > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:10:15 +0300
5 > gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 >> I have found out that my problem with xfce4 keyboard plugin
8 >> reduces to the fact that now I cannot choose Russian Winkeys
9 >> alternative keyboard: there is no such option in the corresponding
10 >> keyboard layout settings. So, I have to choose Osetinian Winkeys
11 >> alternative keyboard as it is appears to be the next best choice:
12 >> only one extra unnecessary letter "ӕ" in place of "э" and the letter
13 >> "э" is set in another easy to remember position.
14 >
15 > Oh, no. I was wrong! Because, in the Osetinian Winkeys
16 > keyboard layout, I cannot find letter "ё".
17 >
18 > And this issue significantly slows down my work!
19 >
20 >> But everything worked perfect before emerging xfce4-weather-plugin
21 >> with patches and libidn!
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23 Well you should configure keyboard layouts through evdev. If you update xorg-server you will need to remerge x11-drivers.
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25 So configure evdev as suggested by previous emails and then remerge x11-drivers.
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28 -M

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