Bug 490484

Summary: Pressing Alt -< does not give '|' (bar) as expected.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pawel Salek <pawsa>
Component: xkeyboard-configAssignee: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: 1.4-8.fc10 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Pawel Salek 2009-03-16 17:03:55 UTC
Description of problem:
I have Dell Latitude D630 hardware with Swedish keyboard. The keyboard has a key  in a left lower corner with three symbols: <, >, and |. Unfortunately, pressing Alt-that-key does not produce '|'. The problem is fixed by adding one line to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/se

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xkeyboard-config-1.4-6.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Alt-< 
  
Actual results:
Nothing is produced.

Expected results:
'|' character should appear.

Additional info:
I have worked around the problem by adding following line to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/se
 xkb_symbols "se" {
  ...
+    key <LSGT>  { [  less,       greater,          bar,          bar ] };
     include "kpdl(comma)"

     include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};

I am not sure whether this is the best solution but it works for me.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2009-04-28 03:18:40 UTC
Thanks. I sent the patch to the upstream maintainer, waiting for his feedback.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-04-28 22:51:36 UTC
xkeyboard-config-1.4-8.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xkeyboard-config-1.4-8.fc10

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-05-02 16:34:46 UTC
xkeyboard-config-1.4-8.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xkeyboard-config'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-4152

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-05-21 00:02:28 UTC
xkeyboard-config-1.4-8.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.