[Goodies-dev] [Bug 4327] New: Weird characters after changing keyboards

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Wed Aug 27 11:56:24 CEST 2008


http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4327

           Summary: Weird characters after changing keyboards
           Product: Xfce Panel Plugins
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC (x86_64)
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: Medium
         Component: xkb
        AssignedTo: goodies-dev at xfce.org
        ReportedBy: markpolo at gmail.com


I have up to now used only Gnome, and was just trying out Xfce. When I tried to
use the xkb panel, it gave me only the options of German and English, with no
option to add more (but maybe that's hidden somewhere...). 

However, the US-English option had the normal German keyboard (which is my
default keyboard in Gnome), and when I tried to select the German keyboard, I
got a weird "special characters" mode, as though I had the AltGr key pressed --
i.e. »đ¢€ instead of xfce.

This may be something deeper, however, as I also tried setxkbmap la (to use a
home-brewed Ancient Latin keyboard), but this gave me some sort of Hindi or
other eastern font, where in Gnome it allows me to type ā ē and such using the
AltGr key.

I am on Fedora 9. Package versions: xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-4,
xfce-xkb-plugin-0.4.3-4, libxkbfile-1.0.4-5

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