Re: [Lilux-help] xkb keymap problem - Lilux-help

7 Aug 2005

pst wrote:

...
 what is your XF86Config config ?
what desktop env do you use GNOME, KDE, (they use their own keyboard
settings), etc. ?

 Fluxbox, so no own keyboard settings.

Here's the relevant part of my XF86Config:

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr_CH"
EndSection
---------------------

Worked fine for quite a while.

...
  What does he
mean with "Use defaults: rules - 'xorg'", I don't use Xorg?!

you should xorg is better than xf86 they say ;) in sid (unstable) xorg
should be present i think ...

No, but there's an Ubuntu package also usable for deb. I once tried to 
install... What a mess. It got 2 or 3 cool features like transparency 
and stuff, but it broke with my nvidia drivers. Not very mature yet if 
you ask me. It's more a licence-philosophy issue anyway.

...

 Also I fiddled around in /etc/X11/xkb/rules which
didn't help anything
except me deleting all the files there. I reinstalled the xlibs and
xlibs-data, but the files are still missing. So if somebody would be so
kind to tar them up and send them to me, I would appreciate it.

maybe re-install xkb

That's what I did. xkb is in the xlibs package.

Googling around gave me the feeling that it more like an old bug that 
had been solved once but mysteriously reappered. Especially the 
"Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property" error points more to a 
bug than to a configuration mistake.

And as I didn't change any config it must have come with a sys upgrade. 
As I already said, I had the same problem on an other machine, but 
setxkbmap solved it.