keyboard layout switcher stopped working
Sergey Manucharian
sergey.manucharian at rmico.com
Tue Mar 18 19:52:01 CET 2008
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:07:20 +0100
"Markus Hoenicka" <markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've upgraded a FreeBSD box using the portupgrade tool. This tool
> takes care of all dependencies and updates all installed packages as
> needed. As a result, I've upgraded all XFCE packages from 4.4.0 to
> 4.4.2, and the X Window system from 6.9 to 7.3.
>
> I can still switch the keyboard layout with a key combo which I've set
> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this:
>
> Option "XkbLayout" "us,de"
> Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
>
> However, the XFCE keyboard layout switcher plugin is no longer
> working. It just displays the flag or text of the default layout (US),
> but clicking does not alter anything. Even worse, if I switch the
> layout using Alt-Shift, the plugin displays "(null)". There are no
> related error messages in /var/log/messages. Looks like the plugin is
> not aware that there is an additional layout to take care of.
>
> Due to the way portupgrade works I can't tell whether it is an XFCE
> 4.4.0 vs. 4.4.2 issue or an xorg 6.9 vs. 7.3 issue. Any ideas?
>
> regards,
> Markus
>
This issue has been discussed 3 month ago.
Right now I use the workaround suggested.
> From: "Артем Смирнов" <smirnoffjr at gmail.com>
> To: "XFCE general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: weird behavior of xkb plugin
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:12:03 +0300
> Reply-To: XFCE general discussion list <xfce at xfce.org>
> Sender: xfce-bounces at xfce.org
>
> Yea, looks like same problem have all peoples who use more than one
> layouts... http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8595
> As temporary fixing, try to add
> setxkbmap "us,ru,am"
> in ~/.profile and relogin.
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 9:03 PM, Sergey Manucharian
> <sergey.manucharian at rmico.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Yesterday I've finally upgraded my xfce from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 along
> > with overall system update (xorg server is 1.4.0.90 now). Xkb
> > keyboard layout switcher plugin works now very strangely.
> >
> > I have 3 layouts in the xorg.conf file: "us,ru,am". When xfce is
> > started up, the first (us) layout is shown properly, but 2 others
> > do not show up at all. When I change the layout by the keyboard key
> > (mapped by xmodmap), the xkb-plugin shows "(null)", but the actual
> > layout is changed to the proper one.
> >
> > If I remove the plugin from the panel and add it again, everything
> > becomes working properly until I restart xfce...
> >
> > Any ideas? Maybe kind of "race conditions" between xorg and xfce?
> > Do someone is experiencing the same problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sergey
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