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virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

[PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

Hi all,
i just finished to install a new arch on my brand new dell latitude 5510

I don't know why i'm not able to make the kb properly working.

i'm using an italian layout (keymap = it).

I tried to set the latitude layout from settings, but i'm not able to make the alt-gr combination in the konsole!!

What's happening??

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by virusso80 (2010-07-16 16:16:40)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

> in the konsole
You mean in the KDE terminal emulator or the console / tty: black screen with (usually) white letters?

> i'm using an italian layout (keymap = it).
How did you set it up?

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

> in the konsole
You mean in the KDE terminal emulator or the console / tty: black screen with (usually) white letters?

> i'm using an italian layout (keymap = it).
How did you set it up?

thanks for teh reply!

in tty, it works properly!

actually only konsole and some program (i.e i'm not able to write the mail in the registration form of dropbox client).

I tried ooffice writer and it doesn't work, same for firefox.

can it be something related to gtk appl?

moreover, i'm using kdemod, and I'm posting on their forum asking why i was not able to install any localization:
pacman -Ss kdemod-kde-l10n gives no results

I don't if this could be a related problem.

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

update: i just understood the localization issue. i don't think it's related. sorry.

special characters issue is still there

thanks in advance

karol

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Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

> pacman -Ss kdemod-kde-l10n gives no results
check the wiki

Last edited by karol (2010-07-15 14:59:53)

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

> pacman -Ss kdemod-kde-l10n gives no results
check the wiki

thanks i got it. Is the chars problem related to kdemod maybe...???

thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

> Is the chars problem related to kdemod maybe...???
Sorry, I have no idea.

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

thanks, but actually i uninstalled the whole kdemod and i installed kde (classic) from arch repositories. The problem is still there: the '@' char and others are not available in konsole, firefox, writer etc

I cannot understand why! i tried a live distro of ubuntu, and there's no problem!!! what the problem with arch-kde????

Thanks in advance

Proofrific

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Registered: 2008-01-05

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Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

What are you using to set the keyboard layout in X?  Have you tried setxkbmap?

setxkbmap it

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

Hi, thanks for the suggestion.

I set keymap = it in the rc.conf file, i set italian layout (and later latitude series layout) in system settings of kde and i also checked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf: Option "XkbLayout" "it"

The problem is not related to the mapping, i guess, but to some program (or the way "some" program are configured by system - NOT by me): i.e konsole, firefox, writer and others.

Too many problems with a  -- fresh installation --.

very weird! I just followed the (very consolidated) wiki page!! There should be some bug somewhere

before leaving arch, I'll try gnome despite KDE...

As i stated above ubuntu live cd doesn't have any problem

I hope someone can provide more suggestions

Thanks again

Last edited by virusso80 (2010-07-16 06:58:48)

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

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Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

Guys, it's neither a KDE problem! installed GNOME: same problem!!!!

are you able to make a new installation properly working?

I don't know what to do!!

tty works then it's not a mapping problem!

please give me feedback

Thanks

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

I don't know what changed, but i installed the gnome-extra package and after a little bit, it seemed to work.

I think KDE has something wrong in settings...! i really don't know!

Thanks anyway!

ekenbrand

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Registered: 2010-06-21

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Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] keyboard issue with @#€ etc characters

Hi, have you tried setting the input.xkb.layout variable  in /etc/hal/ fdi/policies/10-keymap.fdi ?