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forGGe

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From: Ukraine

Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 14

Setxkbmap and single layout mode

Hi everyone!

I have noticed that I can't use some hotkeys, like Ctrl-c or Ctrl-v (and many others) when I'm switching to the single 'ru' layout:

$ setxkbmap ru -model pc104

It happens since a produced keysym belongs to the cyrilic set:

$ xev -event keyboard | grep state
 ...
    state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    state 0x14, keycode 54 (keysym 0x6d3, Cyrillic_es), same_screen YES,

One of possible workaround that I have found is to set specific variant. Well... it simply fails:

$ setxkbmap ru -model pc104 -variant alt-int
Error loading new keyboard description

But when I'm adding another layout all seems work:

$ setxkbmap ru,us -model pc104 -variant alt-int

Keysyms are all valid in that case:

$ xev -event keyboard | grep state
 ...
    state 0x10, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    state 0x14, keycode 54 (keysym 0x63, c), same_screen YES,

So I'm here to find out if it is a bug, or feature? Can someone please explain to me it? Since I can't find any references to this behavior.

Thanks,
Max

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From: Bagelstan

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Re: Setxkbmap and single layout mode

Does it work without -model pc104 (and why do you add that option)?

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forGGe

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From: Ukraine

Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 14

Re: Setxkbmap and single layout mode

I saw it in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ke … on_in_Xorg , so I thought: "why not?"

Nevertheless, even without model specified, log is the same:

$ setxkbmap ru
$ xev -event keyboard | grep state
...
    state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
    state 0x4, keycode 54 (keysym 0x6d3, Cyrillic_es), same_screen YES,
    state 0x4, keycode 54 (keysym 0x6d3, Cyrillic_es), same_screen YES,
...

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