Bug 99074 - Keyboard layout switcher breaks virtual terminal switching
Summary: Keyboard layout switcher breaks virtual terminal switching
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-applets
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mark McLoughlin
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-07-14 01:25 UTC by Wagner T. Correa
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-07-23 08:56:37 UTC
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Description Wagner T. Correa 2003-07-14 01:25:14 UTC
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Description of problem:
If I add a keyboard layout switcher applet to the gnome panel, ctrl-alt-f1,
ctrl-alt-f2, etc. no longer work, and I am unable to switch virtual terminals.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-applets-2.2.0-8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a keyboard layout switcher applet to the gnome panel.
2. Press ctrl-alt-f1.


Actual Results:  Nothing will happen.

Expected Results:  Virtual terminal 1 should have appeared.

Additional info:

If I run xev, and I press ctrl-alt-f1, xev reports ctrl-alt-f11. If I remove the
keyboard layout switcher applet from the panel, everything goes back to normal.
I suspect it may be a bug in /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.us.

Comment 1 Leo Lopes 2003-09-26 00:55:43 UTC
In addition to the desktop switching, in my case I also am unable to do Alt-Tab
switching between apps when I use the keyboard switching tool. The problem seems
to be with gkb_xmmap. If I use setxkbmap instead:

setxkbmap us_intl

instead of

gkb_xmmap us-int

even inside the gnome keyboard layout switcher, everything seems to be fine.
Sorry if it isn't the same bug...

Comment 2 David Kaplan 2003-09-26 19:25:40 UTC
I definitely have this same bug.  I switched the keyboard applet from using
gkb_xmmap to using setxkbmap and virtual terminals now work fine.  Doing this
seems to disable the new keyboard in terminals, but this is perhaps a benefit
since I rarely want a non-english character in a terminal.

Why are there soooo many ways to switch keyboards?  Is there a correct one to use?

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-19 12:49:05 UTC
Is this still a problem in Fedora Core 2?

Comment 4 Wagner T. Correa 2004-07-22 19:48:41 UTC
This bug seems to be fixed in FC2.


Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-23 08:56:37 UTC
Thanks much for verifying that


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