Bug 476439

Summary: Deadkeys broken in GNOME ; working in non-GTK apps and console
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Louis-Philippe Savoie <lpsavoie>
Component: xkeyboard-configAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: antoniodtv, flokip, jrb, lecotegougdelaforce, mcepl, rstrode, vonbrand
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Description Louis-Philippe Savoie 2008-12-14 18:25:42 UTC
Created attachment 326882 [details]
xorg.conf

Description of problem:
All Canadian keyboards are broken in GNOME. Normally, you can create accented characters by first typing the accent, then the letter. Now, the console beeps and nothing shows up. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 10 testing updates
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard 1.3.0-3-fc9
xorg-x11-drv-evdev 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a GTK application
2. Write an accented character using deadkeys
  
Actual results:
â

Expected results:
(nothing and the system speaker beeps)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Flóki Pálsson 2008-12-16 12:29:32 UTC
Last evning I updatede form F10 test update.
After that IS ( iclandic ) keyboard was no longer defult.
( gnome-keybond probetys). Dead keys ane not working ( áé ).
Node in gnome or KDE. No applicatinon. 
Efven afret resting keyboard and rebooting.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-12-22 22:05:00 UTC
Could we get /var/log/Xorg.0.log attached to this bug as well, please?

Thank you

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2008-12-22 22:38:14 UTC
does running setxkbmap -layout "ca(fr)" work? Is the layout only set in your xorg.conf, or is it set in the desktop environment (e.g. gnome)?

do you have xkeyboard-config 1.4 or higher?

note that in the default setup, the devices using driver "kbd" in the xorg.conf are ignored. you have to modify either /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (for global settings) or /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi (X only settings).

Here's an example file that includes the "us" layout, adjust as required.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/config/x11-input.fdi

Note that your desktop environment will overwrite any changes in either sysconfig or x11-input.fdi.

Comment 4 Skippy 2009-01-23 15:57:49 UTC
Are you using SCIM ? I had the same issue with GTK_IM_MODULE=xim, and setting GTK_IM_MODULE to either scim or scim-bridge did the trick for me. Try to run for instance :

GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge gedit

Comment 5 Antonio 2009-05-05 16:03:18 UTC
I'm experiencing a similar problem with Spanish layout keyboard: dead keys don't work, so I can't  'á', 'é', 'í', 'ó' ... when I run any WINE application, GoogleEarth or Skype.

 
Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686
Gnome: 2.24.3

Comment 6 Antonio 2009-05-05 16:04:33 UTC
Created attachment 342485 [details]
Xorg.0.log

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