[SOLVED] keymap problem??

UnDr3aD · 2012-11-19 01:44:07

Hi guys, I'm from Brazil, then sry my English!!

I've installed Arch by the latest media (2012-11-01)
everything ok except the windows and their contents start getting deconfigured, looking like special characters!
I've done a lot of research about it and follow all wikis about keyboard settings, keymap, vconsole.conf files, and locale.gen and locale.conf .... but nothing solved!
when I reboot the system everything is ok, but after a while it returns to deconfigure. Start with one window, then another, and another .... until it gets really bad! I have perveived that when these errors appear the text mode seems to be unaffected ( I'm not sure because I'm not using the text mode as much as the graph mode).
the letters of the sites browsed seem to be unaffected, are always ok! However the url bar is also affected by the problem.
Apparently (I think) is something with the graphics manager.
I'm using xfce4!

vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=br-abnt2
FONT=lat9w-16
FONT_MAP=8859-1_to_uni
USECOLOR=yes

locale.gen
pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

locale.conf
LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8

I was having problems on the keyboard too, he kept changing the configuration, but I put the command "setxkbmap-model layout ABNT2-br" in ~ /. bashrc and apparently solved. The time was also unconfiguring but after some settings return to normal.

EDIT: links to screenshots
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19 … ado13.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/83 … ado12.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/44 … eymap.png/

thank u guys

sry my english

Last edited by UnDr3aD (2012-11-29 14:28:51)

chris_l · 2012-11-19 02:30:13

vconsole.conf, locale.gen and locale.conf are mostly used for console.

Your problem however is on X. Probably this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration will point you to the right path.
Your keyboard can also be set from the X configuration.

Tyrian · 2012-11-19 03:09:38

From looking at your screenshots, your problem is identical to mine. Corrupted text in both terminal, Xfce, and Firefox. (I'm running Xfce4 too.) Did you install the fonts ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation?

I ask, because I did, and that's when all my problems started. I ended up removing both of them with pacman -Rs ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation. After a reboot, my system functions normally. I'm not seeing any corrupted text in terminal, Xfce, or Firefox.

Hope that helps.

UnDr3aD · 2012-11-20 02:27:07

sry the delay
the problem appears after a time using the system and I'm testing now!

chris_l
I'm following the link recommendations.
I created a configuration file $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf containing:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
      <const>hintslight</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
      <bool>true</bool>
    </edit>
  </match>
<match target="font">
    <test name="weight" compare="more">
        <const>medium</const>
    </test>
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
        <bool>false</bool>
    </edit>
</match>
  <match target="font">
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
      <const>lcddefault</const>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

and I change the rule overriding:
# mv 50-user.conf 00-user.conf

I'm still testing the system. The problem don't appears again after the configuration... yet!

Tyrian
I have installed the ttf-dejavu and ttf-liberation fonts, but I can't remove it because it's dependece of others softwares!!!

I'm still testing! thanks

Last edited by UnDr3aD (2012-11-20 15:30:57)

jasonwryan · 2012-11-20 02:37:08

Whoa, there tiger. Please use code tags when pasting on the boards:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

UnDr3aD · 2012-11-20 15:37:02

sry jasonwryan. I fix it

I'm still testing (when I can)!
The problem don't appears again, yet...

UnDr3aD · 2012-11-20 23:52:09

Hey guys,
the problem appeared again! not solved yet!!!!
I don't know what is the cause or origin... any ideas?

mrawfull · 2012-11-21 01:48:36

I am having same problem. Sometimes different letters show up randomly in urxvt and openbox menu.

vwyodajl · 2012-11-21 09:02:54

I was having the same issue on one of my boxes. Downgrading xorg-server and xorg-server-common got rid of the random letters.

HTH

UnDr3aD · 2012-11-27 23:16:34

sry the delay!!
thanks man! that's rly works for me! I'm testing yet, but it's working fine!

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1195157
http://slopjong.de/2012/11/19/problem-w … rendering/

I made download of the old package and instaled it! works!
http://arm.konnichi.com/search/index.ph … ommunity=1

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#1 2012-11-19 01:44:07

[SOLVED] keymap problem??

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