Bug 125578

Summary: missing keyboard layout
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jose David Forero <joseforr>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 2   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://doncho.net/blog/index.php?p=85
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Using an English keyboard with accents in Fedora Core 2 and KDE none

Description Jose David Forero 2004-06-08 23:58:11 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510

Description of problem:
After the upgrade of my Fedora from Core 1 to Core 2, I noticed very
serious problem - my keyboard layouts were missing, no switching -
nothing! In KDE Control Panel -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard
Layout, the Available Layouts list was empty, also XKB options list
was empty too.
I was astonished! After a long Google struggle, I found the solution
here. It seems that the XFree86 to XOrg migration, which occurs in
Core 2, has caused this problem. Seems also that Control Center
expects to find the available layouts in the xfree86.lst file, while
the new xorg layouts are placed in xorg.lst.
Execution of these commands as root fixed my problem:

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules
ln -s xorg.lst xfree86.lst
ln -s xorg.xml xfree86.xml

Thanks to Ralf Ertzinger for his post - it saved my day!

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      This did not work here, so here�s what did work:

      cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules
      ln -s xorg-it.lst xfree86-it.lst
      ln -s xorg.lst xfree86.lst
      ln -s xorg.xml xfree86.xml

      Comment by Doncho N. Gunchev � 6/6/2004 @ 3:55 am


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-6.7.0-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the KDE desktop
2. Open the Control Center
3. Regional & accessibility / Keyboard layout
    

Actual Results:  I can not compose spanish characters with my english
keyboard.

Expected Results:  Please I want to work like in Fedora Core 1 or
RedHat 6/7/8/9. Thanks.

Additional info:

Thanks.
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2004-06-09 00:25:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120858 ***
Comment 2 Jose David Forero 2004-06-09 16:08:31 UTC 
Created attachment 100992 [details]
Using an English keyboard with accents in Fedora Core 2 and KDE

I am already working with US keyboard and spanish accents in Fedora 2/KDE with
this guide.
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:04:00 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.