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holonic

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Registered: 2006-06-28

Posts: 8

upgrade to gnome 2.20 = japanese keyboard layout messed up

Hi,

I've just upgraded gnome 2.18 to gnome 2.20 and to my surprise my keyboard layout which used to work perfectly for my keyboard is completely messed up.
I'm using arch on a sony vaio japanese laptop with a japanese keyboard (with all the special keys it has).
Since it's a laptop the layout is not exactly the same as the standard one but most of the keys worked pretty well until now.
Among other keys I've lost the most annoying one being the key to input underscores, which is very imparing...

I tried to tweak stuff here and there in my xorg.conf, in System > Preferences > Keyboard, in the gnome configuration using gconf-editor with no luck.
What's more, I've got a nice error message thrown at my face at every startup and when I try to tweak things while gnome is running.
Here are the relevant confs and the message, for those of you who might have a clue :

xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "jp106"
        Option "XkbLayout" "jp"
        Option "XkbVariant" "jp106"
EndSection

the annoying error message

Error activating XKB configuration.
It can happen under various circumstances:
- a bug in libxklavier library
- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)
- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
70200000

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

xprop -root | grep XKB

_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "jp106", "jp", "jp106", ""
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "jp106", "jp", "jp106", ""

gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd

layouts = [jp  jp106]
 model = jp106
 options = [grp grp:alts_toggle]
 overrideSettings = true

Since I did a pacman -Syu and I wasn't very much attention maybe the thing that screwed things up has nothing to do with gnome... I don't know.

The question is : How can I customize the layout for my own needs ?? I tried to google a bit about it but all the info I could get was either outdated or not applicable for arch.

Thanks to anyone who could enlighten me, this is a very very annoying issue...

holonic

Member

Registered: 2006-06-28

Posts: 8

Re: upgrade to gnome 2.20 = japanese keyboard layout messed up

Great.
Now I've done a pacman -S gnome to try to reinstall the whole thing once more now as gdm starts I've got the error

gdm-binary[5644]: WARNING: Didn't understand `' (expected true or false)

and once I'm logged in there's a window that blinks like ten times to finally throw up

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

and in the end, I've got a desktop that looks like a GTK 1 version, back to the old days !!!

Who knew a simple desktop upgrade could screw the system that bad..

When's 2.20.0-2 due for by the way ?