Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:31:15 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr> Cc: Dimitris Rizopoulos <drizo72@mycosmos.gr>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error with libxklavier (xorg 6.9, gnome 2.12, freebsd 6.0) Message-ID: <43DF66A3.90203@ebs.gr> In-Reply-To: <43DE123E.2040909@ebs.gr> References: <6D92C7368307F04A8F04BC22AF792BC7013A4A97@MCBEC1EXC1.mcmail.mycosmos.gr> <43DE123E.2040909@ebs.gr>
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Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I have seen this reported before but if anyone has a solution, please >> help! >> >> I start Gnome 2.12 on my FreeBSD 6.0 with the latest ports installed >> and I get a window telling me: >> >> http://www.aphax.nl/images/xkb-gnome-error.png >> >> (I am attaching the same link, as I have exactly the same error window >> as Hans Nieser) >> >> (It says error possible bug in libxklavier or xorg to cut a long story >> short, if you have problems accessing the above link). >> >> Xorg is 6.9.0 >> >> The gnome system has become extremely slow at times (mostly when >> opening applications), and keyboard switching from english to greek >> and vice versa does not work (as I suspected that it wouldn't). >> >> Any ideas? (I have updated my ports tree just the day before >> yesterday, and it took me one day (yesterday) to rebuild gnome (2nd >> time) to get the same unpleasant result... >> >> Please help. > > I'm seeing this error message too. This is the requested debug output > from my system: > > % xprop -root | grep XKB > _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us,el", ",", > "grp:alt_shift_toggle" > _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", > "grp:alt_shift_toggle" > % gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd > layouts = [us,el] > model = > overrideSettings = false > options = [] > > One relevant change in Xorg 6.9.0 is that they renamed the greek symbols > file from "gr" to "el". Although reverting this in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols.dir and renaming > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/el to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/gr > doesn't seem to make a difference. Even worse: > > % setxkbmap el > Error loading new keyboard description > % setxkbmap gr > Error loading new keyboard description > > And the weirdest thing is that libxklavier doesn't seem to have any > commits in their CVS repository for two years, even though the latest > release is not that old. OK, the important issue (typing in Greek) can be fixed by doing: ln /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/gr /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/el This is with the following xorg.conf entries: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us,el" Option "XkbVariant" ",extended" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle" EndSection As for the libxklavier warnings, there does seem to be some incompatibility with the new Xorg, but from what I understood from googling around, it is supposed to be fixed in Gnome 2.14. Cheers, Panagiotis
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