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kdebase package

KDE keyboard variants not working

Bug #22180 reported by S.J.Skinner
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kdebase (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

In the KDE systemsettings GUI, if I select the keyboard layout U.S. English with
a layout variant of alt-intl, nothing happens. It seems like the GUI is just
not running the command "setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -variant alt-intl"
that it says it will run. If I run that command myself, from a bash window, it
works fine, so it must be something the GUI isn't doing right.

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote :

Thak you for your bug report. Do you still have this problem? If so, which version of Kubuntu are you using?

This works fine for me in a recent version of Dapper.

Changed in kde-systemsettings:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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S.J.Skinner (sjsbug) wrote :

This is still a bug in Breezy running either KDE 3.5.2 or 3.4.3.
It could be simply that the GUI does not provide the
full path name to setxkbmap.

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Lorenzo J. Lucchini (ljl) wrote :

The information at
http://lwn.net/Articles/175287/
helped first me and then another person solving this problem.

Symlinking /usr/share/X11/xkb to /etc/X11/xkb (which should exist - if /usr/share/X11/xkb also exists already as a directory, it is probably empty except for a README file, and can be removed) solved the problem.

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

Do you have this problem on Edgy or Feisty?

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S.J.Skinner (sjsbug) wrote : Re: [Bug 22180] Re: KDE keyboard variants not working

I haven't tried Edgy or Feisty.

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

I am closing this bug because it lacks information from a recent release and Breezy is no longer supported. Please reopen if you still have this problem in Feisty.

Changed in kdebase:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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