Description of problem: I am unable to enter a tilde character(˜) with the keyboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc6 with updates. How reproducible: Reproduced on two different hardware platforms, don't have confidence reproducing becsuse, I am unable to go back to a state where I can enter the tilde character. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Japanese language package in add/remove software. 2. Open up gnome terminal, 3. Try to type a tilde in any application. Actual results: sees a backtick, the character on the same key as the tilde. A backtick is typed with the same key as a tilde but without holding the shift. Expected results: a tilde Additional info: fc6 with updates, not using rawhide.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 144673 [details] Attach files pre and post delete of xorg.conf These steps removed the problem, the tilde now works, thank you. Here are the files attached [brandon@localhost 221109]$ tar -zcvf xorgfiles.tar.gz postdel/ predel/ postdel/ postdel/xorg.conf.bak postdel/Xorg.0.log.old postdel/xorg.conf.original-0 postdel/xorg.conf.fglrx-0 postdel/Xorg.0.log predel/ predel/Xorg.0.log.old predel/xorg.conf predel/Xorg.0.log
Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as CANTFIX. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. [This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Xorg or Gecko. If you see any other reason, why this bug shouldn't be closed, please, comment on it here.]
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information. Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. {This is mass-closing of all obsolete bugs; if this bug was in your opinion closed by mistake, please, reopen it with additional information; thanks a lot and I am sorry for bothering you in such case.}