Bug 64673

Summary:	US Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout is broken
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	regression
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	FreeBSD
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Graeme Geldenhuys 2013-05-16 14:21:24 UTC

I setup my X11 (FreeBSD 9.1) to use the "US Programmer Dvorak" keyboard layout, but I found that the 3rd and 4th state of keys don't work. ie: pressing ralt
(AltGr) simply causes the system to beep and doesn't register as the AltGr key.

After looking at the /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file I found the problem. For the "dvp" layout, the following line was missing...

include "level3(ralt_switch)"

thus no AltGr support. Simply adding this line in, and restarting X11 the US Programmer Dvorak layout functioned correctly and I can easily type all the extra symbols like £¥ëê etc.

My system is using the xkeyboard-config-2.5.1 archive, which I believe contains the keyboard symbol files.


How-To-Repeat
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Setup your X11's xorg.conf file as follows...

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvp"
EndSection

Start X11 and try and type: RAlt+5 which should generate the  symbol.
It will not. Any key combination with RAlt or RAlt+Shift will not work,
until you apply the fix I mentioned earlier.


Fix
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After looking at the /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us file I found
the problem. For the "dvp" layout, the following line was missing...

include "level3(ralt_switch)"

Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2013-05-16 20:46:28 UTC

ok, fair enough. fixed.

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