Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139150
gnome is missing key on japanese jp106 keyboard
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
Description of problem: When using the GNOME desktop, a key on the Japanese jp106 keyboard does not function. It is the '] }' key, located between ': *' and Enter. It must be a problem with GNOME, as the key still works on the console (in fact, I could only produce above sentence by typing it in vi on a console, switching back to ctrl-alt-f7 and pasting it into here). The key itself is OK - when selecting it as an accelerator for a keyboard shortcut, 0x33 is displayed. This is quite a disaster, as the closing brackets and braces are pretty essential for programming and scripting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install FC3 on system with Japanese jp106 keyboard 2. start gnome 3. start any application that accepts keyboard input, like gedit or terminal 4. press the '] }' key Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: a ] should display on the screen
If you log in to a failsafe session - from login screen select "Session" and choose "Failsafe session" - do you see the same problem?
Sorry it took me a while to answer: Same problem in failsafe and also kde, so I looked for the problem in xkb rather than gnome. And voila: my configuration loaded keycodes xfree86 instead of xfree86(jp106), which defines exactly that one key which I was missing. Sorry for reporting a mis-configuration as a bug.